The document provides details about the Northeast Health Science Magnet High School media center facilities plan. It includes background information on the school, a floor plan and descriptions of the media center spaces, current policies for students and teachers, and opinions from students and teachers on what they like and dislike about the current media center facilities and policies. Revisions are proposed, such as reconfiguring the student computers, adding a faux fireplace, and revising some media center policies.

1. Northeast Health Science Magnet High School 1646 Upper River Road Macon, Georgia 31211 http://schools.bibb.k12.ga.us/northeast/site/default.asp Media Center Facilities Plan Presented by: Chiquisha TomlinFRIT 7132 Administration of School Library Media ProgramFall 2009Instructor: Dr. Repman

2. Background Information …About the Northeast Raiders

3. School Colors: Red, Black, & Gold Divided into 3 buildings: Mark Smith, Vocational & Lasseter Student Population: 906 Grade Levels: 9-12 1 Principal; 2 Assistant Principals Faculty/Staff: 78 Location in Town: East Macon Media Specialists: 1 (full-time) Media Clerks: 1 (full-time) Northeast’s Demographics & Description

4. Mission Statement Mission Statement of NEHS This is a shot of the front of the Vocational Building, in which the main office and the media center are housed. To provide a high quality education for all Northeast High School students in a safe and comfortable environment, and to make use of all human and technological resources in preparing graduates for post-high school objectives.

5. Achievement and Performance for every student, in every classroom, at Northeast High School. School Vision

6. The goals of Northeast High are as follows: 1. To provide an instructional program that meets the needs of our student population with high expectations for all students. 2. To provide an orderly, safe learning environment. 3. To work cooperatively with parents and other community agencies to further enhance our educational program. 4. To increase student enrollment in honors and advanced classes. 5. To assist students in acquiring the habits and attitudes necessary to progress in school and in life. 6. To work with the school's JROTC, CTAE, Instructional Staff, Administration, Parent Teacher Student Organization (PTSO), and other parental and auxiliary groups to plan, implement, evaluate, and monitor school programs, which promote the intellectual, social, physical, and behavioral growth of students. School Goals

7. The mission of the school library media program in Bibb County Public Schools is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of information. The school library media center is an integral part of the total instructional process and the information center of the school. Media Center Mission of Bibb County

8. Grand Tour of the Northeast HS Media Center LET US GO………

9. Northeast Media Center Location Entrance located across from main office. Located in the middle of the Vocational building, with one entrance across from main office and the other entrance across from the foreign language classrooms. Hours: 7:15a-2: 45p

10. Northeast HS Media Center Facilities Floor Plan Comfort Zone

11. The media center is divided by the tables and computers that sit in the middle. As you enter the media center from the main office side, the fiction books are on the left and the non-fiction books are on the far right of the media center. At the rear of the media center is the conference room, the technology specialist office and master control room. There are also a few more student computers. Overview

12. Faculty Meetings Departmental Meetings Town Hall Meetings School Council Meetings School Board Meetings Class computer use Facility Uses

13. The circulation desk has 2 computers that are mainly for teacher and LMS and LMC use. The LMS and LMC offices are located behind the circulation desk, as seen in the picture. Circulation Desk

14. Non-Fiction & Fiction Sections In this picture are the fiction books and bibliography books. The whole wall are all fiction books. The 3 rows of shelves are filled with bibliographies. In this picture are the non-fiction books in the media center. There are 5 shelves of non-fiction books and a whole wall shelf.

15. Conference Room/ Master Control Media Production Room-R Tech Specialist Office (L) Conference Room is along this same wall and is to the left of the Tech Spec. Office Media Production Room(R): This room is located in the rear of the media center, it is responsible for getting the school announcements to be shown school wide everyday. Tech Specialist Office: The Tech Specialist is here everyday of the week except Thursdays. More student computers are shown here as well. There are actually 8 more computers along this one wall.

16. Shown here are student computers that sit in the middle of the media center. There are 4 computers on each electrical/ethernet outlets shown in the middle There are 3 stations set up the same way in the middle, total of 12. Students can only use the computer if they have a written pass from the teacher. Student Computers Student Computers

17. Teachers and Students can use this room to: Cut letters for bulletin boards Butcher Paper Students can only use this room during after school hours, however, they’re not allowed to use the paper cutter. Teacher Resource Room

18. This room stores old VHS tapes, overhead projectors and other media that is currently not in use anymore. Located behind the circulation desk. Media Equipment Storage

19. For students use to read or do work. Located in the rear of the library. Has a mural of jungle animals on the far wall. Used for conferences among students and teacher. Ex: Department Meetings. Students must have a pass from teacher in order to sit in the comfort zone. Comfort Zone/ Magazine Corner

20. Media Center Policies of NEHS

21. No students are allowed in the media center before 7:30am daily. Hours: 7:30a-2:45pm Monday-Friday Students MUST have a pass and school identification before using a computer or checking out a book. Students are only allowed to check out 2 books at one time. Printing in color or black and white is FREE of charge. No Food or Drink allowed in the media center. Students must adhere to the policies of Northeast HS and the Bibb Co. School District (BCSD) Policies for Students

22. Must sign out equipment borrowed from the media center. Must book the computer lab or mobile lab 2-3 days in advance. Must be monitoring students at all time if teacher has a class in the media center. Must see media specialist before scheduling a meeting. Meeting must be related to school affairs. Policies for Teachers

23. Use of the Internet Internet services will be made available to all schools. All students and staff will follow Board of Education Acceptable Use Policy (Revised June, 2006) when using the Internet at school. Source: Bibb County School District Website: www.bibb.k12.ga.us Internet Use Policy

24. Maintain a comprehensive materials collection consisting of current media, books reference sources, and periodicals in print and electronic formats that support student learning, the curriculum, and the instructional program; Provide a balanced collection of a minimum of 10 books per student; Ensure that all students and staff members have regular, ready access to media services, materials, and equipment; Employ a currently accepted circulation system for materials; Provide training on effective use of media resources for students and members of the professional staff; Ensure that the media staff collaborates with other professional staff members to attain maximum benefit from the resources; Possess a policy and procedure for responding to challenged materials; Budget sufficient funds for library media services and resources, including equipment, to support the curricular and instructional programs; and Secondary Schools with enrollment in excess of 1,500 students must provide at least 15,000 usable volumes. Source: Bibb County School District Media Specialist Handbook The “Must-Do’s” of the Northeast MC/School District

25. Facilities Revision If it were my media center, I would…

26. Revised Floor Plan Have student computer screens facing circulation desk. Put a makeshift fire place in comfort zone.

27. Additions to Facilities Faux Fireplace for Comfort Zone- $429.00 Flat Screen Computers-$1,199.99

28. My revisions to the current facilities would be: Put new paint on the walls. Make the paint a bit brighter like red with murals of an window, open doors, and a man and woman raider (school mascot) with a book, reading drawn on the walls. Add a makeshift fireplace in the Comfort Zone area to have a very homelike feel. Have ALL of the student computer screens turned to where the media specialist can see the screens from the circulation desk, that way students can be monitored more closely. Students can break through the proxy server and get to sites that are supposed to be blocked. Get new student computers. (flat screens) Revisions

29. Additions + Charge students for printing. 10 cents a page in color; 5 cents for a black & white page. + Students caught using cell phones will be asked to leave the media center. + Ban students from using media center until further notice for breaking through the proxy server to get to blocked websites. Subtractions - Students’ rights to use the Teacher Resource Room. Students don’t clean after themselves. Policy Additions & Subtractions

30. Student & Teacher Opinions of Current Policies and Facilities

31. Students Likes & Dislikes About the MC @ NEHS Likes Dislikes Lighting Comfortable seating available in the Comfort Zone Mural in Comfort Zone The Media Clerk New books to read **based off surveys taken during class** Computers- they’re slow. Screens aren’t flat like some classroom computers The walls Students aren’t always quiet in the media center some days. No working pencil machine **based off surveys taken during class**

32. Teachers Likes and Dislikes Likes Dislikes The lighting The material resource room The media clerk The media specialists is hardly ever in the media center when needed. No collaboration with media specialist. Storage room is extremely cluttered.

33. Likes 12th Grade Student (S. Parham): “The lighting is brighter in the media center than it is in some of the classrooms.” 10th grade student (K. Walker): “ The Comfort Zone is the best thing in the media center Dislikes 11th grade student (R. May): “ The media specialist is very rude and seems like she doesn’t want to help.” 12th grade (T.K): “The computers are slow” Student Comments

34. Likes: AJ: “The material resource room has most of the letters so that you can use the letter cutter and the di-cuts” Dislikes LWC: “I hate we don’t have as much collaboration as we should. The roll of the media specialist is to collaborate with the teachers, and we don’t have that.” Teacher Comments