This document provides an orientation for new librarians in Chesterfield County Public Schools. It outlines goals of introducing librarians to library services, policies, and resources. It details library meetings, professional learning communities on Edmodo, and guidelines for budgets, collection development, and ordering materials. Key contacts and resources are introduced for cataloging, processing, and delivery of library materials.

1. Chesterfield County Public
Schools
Welcome New Librarians!
. . .from Library Services

2. Ice Breaker-Candy Confession Chart
Number of years teaching=
Where you live =
Information about your family =
Favorite movie =
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3. ●to acquaint you with Library Services
●to inform you of CCPS library policy
●to help you locate information necessary for you do
your job
●and to thank you, in advance, for your
contributions to the education of CCPS
students
What are the goals of this
presentation?

4. Where is the Instructional Part of Library
Services?
Instruction Division Center
Office of Curriculum and
Instruction- located at
CTC@Hull

5. Library Meetings 2015-16
Sept. 1 - Secondary Librarians in-service
Sept. 2- Elementary Librarians in-service
Sept. 29 All day PD on Guided Inquiry
(D136)
Jan. 26; March 9 and May 5 Quarterly
meetings (8-10 am secondary; 1:30-3:30
elementary)
*All meetings will be at CTC@Hull in room
D 109

6. Edmodo as a Professional Learning
Network
CCPS Librarians join code: sfsabd
Guided Inquiry join code: k5cjh2
New Librarians Orientation code: ehhe3j

7. CCPS LibGuides

8. PGPP-L
●Will be in TalentEd this year
●Includes:
●Self Assessment
●PGPP-L forms- both SMART and blended
learning goals on same form
●Pre- observation form
●PGPP-L Observation forms (both formal and
walk-through are on same form)
●PGPP-L Summative Form

9. Mentor/BuddyList2015-16 New Librarian School Buddy's Name School
Erin Walker BBMS Kim Kuhn BBMS
Kathy Bruckner Beulah Julie Reedy Hening
Karen Austin Bon Air Tara Hannon Gordon
Deanna Gravely Carver Career/Academy Alda Moore Matoaca High
Eileen Pike Enon Linda Johnson Ettrick
Colleen Lee Greenfield Mary Yerby Bellwood
Bridget Neace Matoaca ES Marqquita Copeland Wells
Lindsey Huckstep Monacan Gillian Anderson Monacan
Karen Bristow Providence ES Wendy Collins AM Davis
Kyle King Robious ES Rebecca Schneeberger Grange Hall
Tami Witham Winterpock Julie Profita Curtis
Laura Eklund Woolridge Carolyn Martin Evergreen
Anita Fluker itinerant Sheila Dunn Gates
Vera Edmonds itinerant Su Olsen Spring Run
Heather Lyle itinerant Amy Lee Chalkley
Emily Mazzanti itinerant Kathy White Swift Creek ES
Kaila Thompson itinerant Rebecca Schneeberger Grange Hall

10. iLearn 2015-16
Menu of items for librarians
12 hours required by June 30, 2016.

11. Budgets
You have a Books and Subscriptions
account in Mackin (B&S).
You may also have a school activity
fund (SAF).
Carolyn will discuss this more in her
1-to-1 meeting in the fall.

12. What to do if you get a parent to challenge
materials in the library
1. Don’t panic; listen to the concern.
2. Explain the ALA Library Bill of Rights
and CCPS Materials Selection Policy
(Carolyn will talk about that)
3. If parent still not happy, point them to the
Reconsideration Materials Policy ( in your
packet)
4. Inform your principal and me ASAP.

13. Where is Central Library
Services (CLS) located?
CTC @ Hull
downstairs
behind the
Fulghum
conference
center

14. What does CLS do for me?
Our job is to support you in any way we can. We
provide guidance, training, and mentoring on:
●Library.Solution software
●Cataloging and processing
●Ordering
●Collection development

15. CLS Staff
Desiree
Danielle
Marcia
Debbie A.
Debbie C.
Carolyn

16. CLS Page on CNet

17. Library.Solution
The Library Corporation (TLC)
Modules include:
YouSeeMore! portal page
Catalogs
LS2 PAC - LS2 Kids - Classic
LS2 Staff
LS2 Reports
Real Time Inventory

18. Library.Solution
Debbie Cooke is your contact for
"everything TLC".
Debbie_Cooke@ccpsnet.net
office 639-8965, cell 350-0450

19. Collection Development Focus
for 2015-16: FIC & SC
Fiction
SC

20. Collection Development
Use all resources available to you in
your selection of materials:
●Mackin recommended titles
●Book reviews from library journals
●Teacher recommendations
●Book picks from other librarians
●You will receive a packet of
information in our 1 on 1 training
about selection and weeding library
materials.

21. Collection Development Info on CNet

22. Collection Development
Take time to get to know your collection, your
faculty, and your students.
Refer to the Collection Development Procedures, located on
LibGuides and CNet:

23. Collection analysis are run once a year
(in the fall/winter) for each school, but
can be requested anytime. Your results
can be found on Mackin.com.
Collection Analyses

24. Choose My Collection Analysis from the
My Mackin tab

25. Approved CCPS library book
and eBook vendor:
Other sources may be used to purchase
library items if the item is not available
through Mackin. Your school may run a
Book Fair, if so, we strongly recommend that
you take your profits in cash and use that
money to purchase materials from Mackin.
Mackin

26. Cataloging and Processing
Support
1. We offer occasional workshops for you and
your library assistant.
2. CCPS has standardized cataloging
specifications. These can be found on CNet.
3. CCPS also has standardized processing
specifications, which are part of the county
contract with our book vendors.
4. If you need any help at all, email or call
Carolyn Moul.

27. Periodicals
Magazines were ordered in the Spring
from Cox. You will receive a copy of
the invoice via email within the next
couple of weeks.
The amount of your Cox invoice has already been deducted from
your Mackin account.

28. Adding new items
Many of you have already had
instructions on how to add items
that have ISBNs or ISSNs that are
already in the catalog.
If you have any questions, call or email Carolyn Moul or
Debbie Cooke.
If you need dumb barcodes, email Danielle_MacGregor.

29. Delivery Service
CLS and the Warehouse
work together to deliver
your items to you ASAP!
Materials that have been
cataloged are packed up
in boxes and delivered
twice a week.

30. Behind the scenes
Beginning with collection development to placing the
order until the items arrive in the hands of your
students – I am your contact.
If you have any questions on ordering, what or how
to order, the processing or cataloging of any of your
materials, let me know!
Carolyn_Moul@ccpsnet.net