1. Welcome to
Library Basic Training
Peter Doering SCCOE
Lonni Gause SCCOE

2. Introductions
 Name, school and district
 How many hours you work
 How long have you worked in a school
library
 Your favorite thing so far

3. Today’s
Outline and
Handouts

4. Where Do I Start?
A School Library Handbook

6. What is your
Library Mission?

7. Library Mission
The mission of the library media
program is to ensure that students
and staff are effective users of ideas
and information.

8. Providing
Information
Skills
Helping Promoting
Teachers Reading
Teach
Administrative Duties

9. Library
Orientation

11. Library Orientation Skills
1. How your library is organized:
• Give a tour of the library
• Fiction/Nonfiction- differences;
• Dewey Decimal system;
• Location of special collections.
2. Library policies and rules:
• Care of books and materials;
• Rules for behavior and consequences.
3. How to check out materials:
• Procedures for check out
• Time period for checkouts;
• Overdues and fines.

12. Library
Skills

15. Library Skills
1. Parts of a book/resource:
 Author, title, call number, etc.
2. Types of materials and how they are organized:
 Fiction/nonfiction;
 Dewey Decimal System.
3. How to find materials in the library:
 Use of the online catalog
 How to search by author, title, keyword, subject;
 Website

16. 4. How to find materials online:
 Online searching skills.
5. How to use specific resources and collections
in the library:
 Printed materials – almanac, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia,
and other specialized resources;
 Bibliographic information, indexes, table of contents;
 Databases – online searching skills specific to each resource.

17. Break
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Cupertino Room
10:45 – 11:45

18. Building
Life-Long Readers

20. English Language Arts Standards
• By the end of 3rd grade, students must be fluent readers
• The goal of effective language arts instruction is to:
– Accomplish lifelong readers
– Find balance of:
– competence
– motivation
– accessibility
– experience
With print

21. Accessibility
• Display
– Books face out
– Eye level
• Variety of Resources
– Magazines, newspapers, action cards, comics, graphic
novels
• Interest Level vs Reading Level: Meet your
readers where they are
• Schedule
– Lunch, recess, after school, 2nd half of period

22. Motivation
• Market titles/Books-to-film
• Lists of titles: Website resources
• If you liked…..
• What do I read next….
• Genres
• New book displays
• Book Talks:
Quick and Simple
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/

23. Curriculum/Teacher Support
• Topic/Unit lists
• Promote new titles
• Announce award winners
• Ask for recommendations & input
• Support for current events
• Bibliographies

24. Modeling
Oral Reading
– Before you read
– While you read
– After you read
• Language Play
– Poetry, riddles, word games
• Enthusiasm is Contagious!

25. Information
Literacy
Skills

27. Information Literacy
A broader set of library and
communication skills that enable a
person to:
Find
Understand
Evaluate
Use……………
……..information effectively

28. The Big6 TM
Step 1 – Task Definition
Step 2 – Information Seeking Strategies
Step 3 – Location and Access
Step 4 – Use of Information
Step 5 – Synthesis
Step 6 – Evaluation
www.Big6.com
CRLS Research Guide
http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/Big_Six_Steps.asp

29. Collection
Development

30. Customers
 Who (students/teachers/parents)
 What Grades (elementary/secondary)
 Reading Levels
 Interest Levels
 What Languages
 Interests (girl/boys, fiction/nonfiction)

31. Curriculum
 Know what textbooks your school is using
◦ Big projects
◦ Focus on subject areas
◦ District curriculum maps and guides

32. Collection Assessment
 Titlewise: www.titlewise.com
◦ Collection size
◦ Average age
◦ Number of titles per student
◦ Collection distribution (Dewey range)
 California Library Standards
 Run Reports
 What is being used
 Listen to your students and teachers

33. Selection Policy

34. Weeding

35. Weeding
WHY WEED?
 No room for new materials on shelf
 Collection is unused and unattractive
 Full shelves give illusion of a good library
collection
 To correct mistakes in selection
 Maintaining unneeded materials is time
consuming

36. Procedures for Weeding
1. Decide which materials need to be
removed
2. Remove the item from the shelf
3. Delete Catalog records
4. Stamp the book “Discarded”
5. Remove school markings
6. Check school policy for removal
7. Physically discard

37. Purchasing

38. Guides to Help
 Online book lists
 Vendor book lists and ideas
 Periodicals
◦ School Library Journal
◦ Hornbook
◦ Booklinks
 Award winners
Don’t Make Selections Blindfolded

39. Purchasing Steps
1. Identifying what you wish to purchase
2. Identifying what funds are available to
make the purchase
3. Making the purchase
4. Verifying that the correct items are
received and approving payment

40. Processing

41. Physical Processing
 Spine labels
 Date due slips
 Barcodes
 Special Labels
◦ AR Reading Levels, Genres, Title 1
 Covers
◦ Mylar/Laminate
 Processed vs. Do-it-yourself

42. Processing Periodicals
 Prepare a periodical check in card/sheet for
each title
 Check-in each issue as it arrives
 Process for display/check out
 Review for missing issues
 Create a periodical holdings list

43. Cataloging

44. What they
See

45. What we
See
Full
Brief
Incomplete
Records

46. Challenge
Procedures

47. Library
Advocacy

48. Events and Ideas
 Advertise in Newsletters
 Back to School Nights
 Announcements – Have Games
 Hold Contests
 Book Clubs
 Author Visits
 Just Get the Word Out – Every Chance

49. Statistics
 Library usage
 Examines trends for ordering
 Reporting and justifying requests
 Database reports – a lot to choose from
 Classes/small groups/after school

50. Statistics
Time management
Tell the whole story. Include:
 Time spent on inventory
 Preparing bibliographies, pathfinders, etc.
 Troubling shooting computers
 Training assistants, students, volunteers
 Preparing overdues
 Shelving books
 Repairing books
 Purchasing/weeding
 Preparing for classes

51. Closure
Questions
Website:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/library/
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/library/forlib.asp
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/lb/
Evaluation
Thank You for
Coming