This monthly report from the Larned Middle School library summarizes activities for Banned Book Week in September. The library displayed exhibits and had discussions with students about challenged books and censorship. They highlighted state standards about freedom to read. Circulation totals nearly 2,000 items and the card catalog had over 1,700 searches. The librarians organized books by genre and taught library skills through a scavenger hunt.

1. LARNED MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY
SEPTEMBER MONTHLY REPORT
GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST JANICE KNEISLEY, LIBRARY ASSISTANT
Banned Book Week
This month we celebrated
Banned Book Week with visual
displays throughout the library.
The library staff also engaged in
individual and group
conversations with students
about challenged and banned
books and the purpose of banned censorship by spotlighting http://www.youtube.com/
book week, thereby addressing actual or attempted bannings watch?v=_Ok5e7lf4bQ
State Library Standard 8 of books across the United
Benchmark 1. Banned Book States.--from the ALA
Week (BBW) is an annual event website
celebrating the freedom to read
For more details about
and the importance of the First
Banned Book Week visit the
Amendment. Held during the last
following sites:
week of September, Banned
Book Week highlights the http://www.ala.org/ala/
benefits of free and open access issuesadvocacy/banned/
to information while drawing bannedbooksweek/index.cfm
attention to the harms of
Mission
The Larned Middle School Library will be
an inviting, user-friendly hub providing
opportunities for active, engaging and
challenging learning for students and staff
through various media resources,
programming and collaboration. The LMS
Library will provide a quality program that
will enable students to be lifelong learners
Students working on the Library and enhance the curriculum and Students checking out the new
Treasure Hunt technology standards of Larned Middle William Allen White nominees
School.

2. LMS LIBRARY
INTERNET
IDENTITY
Program Highlights
Card Catalog: Allows
students and staff to search
the collection at school or
home--http://98.172.116.52/
simple/?
sessionid=1NYR545AQ36404
832
LMS Library Website:
General information on
library policies & procedures,
programs and Teen Advisory
Group--http://
www.usd495.net/
1507201712277/site/
default.asp
• Taught an introduction lesson on the program Pages to Mrs. Strasburg’s
Creative Writing class for the creation of their newsletter.
• Completed the MAP testing in the library. We had minimum library traffic
during testing times; however, we did remain open for individual book
checkout and renewal.
• Began sorting and labeling fiction books into genre types. The following genre
sections have been completed: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery, Realistic
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sports, Horror/Ghosts and Graphic Novels. We
hope to complete the remaining sections by the end of October.
• Reviewed library skills that addressed State Library Standard 1--Benchmark 2,
3, 4, 5 through a library scavenger hunt. Students worked in groups of 2 or 3
to complete the scavenger hunt. As students completed the scavenger hunt,
the library staff checked student work for accuracy.
• Creation of book bundles were started with the assistance of a high school
library TA. Book bundles are 3 books that are bundled together based on a
common aspect, such as similarity in setting, cover images or character types.

3. Data Snapshots
LMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010
Total Circulation 1951
5th Grade Circulation 805
6th Grade Circulation 475
7th Grade Circulation 182
8th Grade Circulation 227
Other 262
Card Catalog Total Page Hits 1751
Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 46
Filled Denied
Total Resource Requests 40 1
Desktop Computers in Library 3 0
Laptop Computers 31 0
TV/DVD/Video 2 1--none available
Library--research, checkout, etc. 0 0
Other 4 0