The Trinity High School library supports students and curriculum through several measures: 1) It regularly polls girls on their favorite books and adds them to the collection regardless of the librarian's opinion. 2) The administration and teachers strongly back the library with weekly principal meetings and teacher training sessions. 3) Flexible scheduling allows teachers to book library time on the same day as their requests. 4) The librarians teach most of the technology owned by the school, from smartboards to databases, through hands-on experience helping students with projects and searches.

1. Trinity High School
“Don’t worry, girls. This stuff is designed to drive you crazy.”
At Trinity High School’s library, the desires of the students and the needs of the curriculum are balanced.
Girls are polled periodically on their favorite books; those are added to the collection no matter the opinion of the
librarian or literary merit. The administration and the teachers back the library strongly, through weekly meetings
Recommendations: with the principal and tech training sessions where they feed the teachers. Flexible scheduling allows for
Allow girls to check email at
teachers to schedule lessons in the library for the same day they ask. The library owns and teaches most tech
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that the school owns, from smartboards to databases. The librarians Mrs. Klowden and Mrs. Tindall teach by
Most everything is being done
experience, helping the girls learn database search terms by searching for their individual project subjects, and
absolutely right teaching the girls both by successful searches and failed ones.
Action Plan Item: Collection Development of Career Books
What tasks
What Who does How will
need to be done What funding
What is the objective? resources this and success be
to accomplish is needed?
are needed? when? measured?
this?
The books
In order to follow the Trinity High Librarians
adequately reflect
School Library mission of select new $300 out of the
Time to the salaries,
supporting curriculum, the library Evaluation and resources, collection
evaluate requirements, and
needs to update its collection of weeding of library budget for the
collection, educational levels
career books to better assist the current collection, assistants and first year;
databases of each job. They
Freshman Seminar class in buying librarians proportional
and/or have been
For the Jackson Elementary School searching for appropriate replacement and weed old portion of the
services to published or
Library Resource Center, age professions as part of their class supplemental ones; Two or budget every
help select updated within the
appropriateness is key. assignments and to better reflect resources three weeks other year
resources last 5 years. They
the requirements of each every other afterward
reflect the current
profession. year
Flexible scheduling allows teachers to economy.
come in whenever they need to, though
these are usually scheduled in advance. Children are given age-
appropriate books, to the extent that longer chapter books will not be
checked out to first-graders without parental permission. There have Recommendations: ease off
been no challenges as a result of this policy. Mrs. Bruzas and her “age-appropriateness”, start
assistant Ms. Ishida raved about the Destiny automation system and how integrating technology into
it made their lives easier by sending out automatic notices to any student lessons
who had books overdue. Activities on the day of the visit included
activities for Literacy Week. None of the districts’ many databases or
technology come under their purview.
“It’s okay if you don’t like it. We’re still going to
do it.”
Jackson Elementary School