The Lassiter Library annual report summarizes the 2015-2016 school year. It established the library as a strong resource for the over 900 students, all with free or reduced lunch status, who speak 9 different languages. The library helped teachers find fiction and non-fiction works for reading interventions and expanded its internship program. Looking ahead, the librarian aims to focus on technology-based research, digital citizenship, and monthly technology professional development for teachers.

1. LMS LIBRARY
ANNUAL REPORT
The 2015-2016 school year established the Lassiter Library as
a strong resource for students and teachers while building an
overall culture of literacy.
Our student population growth expanded to over 900
students of which 100% were free and reduced lunch status.
Students at Lassiter also speak 9 different languages making
our growing ESL population a unique group of students to
watch and to help learn and grow as readers.
Lassiter has a strong Reading Intervention Program and we
helped teachers find appropriate young adult fiction and non-
fiction to use throughout the year in interventions.
2015-2016
Highlights
Designed Website
Established Social
Media Presence
Developed
Announcements to
Encourage
Conversations in
Literacy
Expanded
Internship Program
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Our vision at the Lassiter
Library is for every
student at Lassiter to
become part of a literacy
movement which will
increase overall test
scores as well as integrate
reading into a daily part of
students’ and teachers’
lives.

2. Important Facts to
Consider Consider…
WE ORDERED 202 NEW BOOKS FOR STUDENTS
THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
STAFF AND STUDENTS DONATED 575 BOOKS FOR
SUMMER READING. ALL 6TH & 7TH GRADE
STUDENTS GOT SUMMER READING MATERIALS!
WE WORKED WITH PLC’S TO DEVELOP UNITS TO
MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS
SPECIFICALLY IN NON-FICTION BASEDON THE
COMMON CORE.
ADOPTED A LIBRARY MASCOT, WHICH GREATLY
INCREASED OVERALL CIRCULATION AND
OPENED THE DOORWAY TO SOME EXCELLENT
CONVERSATIONS IN LITERACY.
WE STARTEDUTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA TO MAKE
CONNECTIONS INCLUDING LIVE TWEETING WITH
AUTHORS.
ENGAGED YOUNG READERS WITHAN OVERALL
SUPERHERO THEME FOR THE SCHOOL-YEAR.
THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM GREW
TREMENDOUSLY AND WORKED TO DEVELOP
INTERGRAL ROLES IN THE SUCCESS OF THE
LIBRARY. WE ENDED THE YEAR WITH 5 TRAINED
INTERNS FOR THE 2016-2017 SCHOOL YEAR.

3. Looking ahead to the 2016-2017 School Year
Next year will be a challenging year as our school continues to grow and
change. My goal is for the library to continue to serve both students and teachers
at Lassiter and to remain an essential part of collaboration within our building. I
am looking forward to working with a new Language Arts Department head to
truly focus on individual grade levels in the areas of reading but also writing.
Research has proven content curation as well as current technology is
imperative for librarians to lead the way in teaching both students and staff to
think critically. I feel this not only applies to the information they access on a
daily basis, but also about the search engines they trust to locate and how they
can apply it directly into assignments. Using our new library computer lab, I will
be able to focus on a more technology-influenced approach to the library.
Next year, I anticipate technology based research and 21st
century skills to
dominate library lessons and collaboration with staff. My main areas for student
development will include:
 Digital Footprints
 Digital Citizenship
 Continuing Source Evaluation
 Copyright and Appropriate Use
 Independent Researching to support classroom instruction
 OPAC

4. I plan to offer monthly technology PD’s to the staff including some of the
following topics:
 Understanding and using https://www.graphite.org in the classroom.
 Understanding and using https://getkahoot.com/ in the classroom.
 Taking advantage of technology such as
https://www.polleverywhere.com/use_cases/active_learning_in_large_c
lasses to create critical thinking labs in the classroom.
 Using Achieve 3000 to work with Reading Intervention courses to
structure article, activity, after-reading poll and critical writing.