field experienceLBSC450.doc 

Collection Maintenance Project

 

Assignment

Field Experience Paper for host TL to sign

Selecting a focused topic

Selection of new resource

 

Sources

http://www.flr.follett.com/intro/titleservices.html

Maintenance: 

You have seen Titlewave-- Follett's tool to help you select materials

Check out Titlewise--find out if your field work library has done a Titlewise check where you compare your catalog of materials against standard tools and also get an age of collection report.

More info at: 

 

Bound to Stay Bound Collection Analysis http://catalog.btsb.com/Collections/

 

Sagebrush (now subsidery of Follett) BenchMARC http://www.sagebrushcorp.com/dataservices/benchmarc.cfm

 

This is a vital first step, I can show you some manual ways if your field library has not done it or is unwilling to let you try it.  The company helps you  Sagebrush also has one but it was bought out by Follett this past summer.  Bound to Stay Bound also has a tool. 

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Weeding: 

 weed-refresh.pptWeeding -- Watch or download the powerpoint that was shown at WLMA 2006 Conference- good summary

 

Sunlink Weed of the month  is  the premiere spot for help

http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/

 

They recently published a book- Less is More that I borrowed from Summit, that you may want to see.

 

 

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 Budgeting:

 

Doug Johnson of Minnesota does an excellent job with a budget overview http://www.doug-johnson.com/handouts/budget.pdf

 

The Price you pay- article from  March 2006 SLJ about prices http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6311760.html

 

Maine provides an interactive Library Value Use Calculator http://www.maine.gov/msl/services/calculator.htm

 

Example of budget display for administrators

 

 

Budget 2006-07_.xls 

 

funding sources.xls

 

spending.xls

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Purchasing electronic online databases:

 

 

2006 SLJ Survey http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6338687.html 

 

School subscription databases http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan05/doe.shtml 

 

ESD101 Subscription databases pricing

http://www.esd101.net/edtech/irc/

 

sample type of questions on evaluation form

http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2006-June/040820.html

 

School Distric tEvaluation form and procedure

http://www.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/tech/docs/softwarereview.pdf

 

Digital learning Commons

http://www.learningcommons.org/about/join/resources.php

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Project Topics

 

 

 

Name	Topic	Age	Class/Content Area
Amy	the human body	10th grade	Biology
Amanda	Collection Maintenance.ppsx Reference Section	Middle School	Humanities
Pam	Washington State Classroom Based Assessment	5th Grade	Social Studies
Darlene	Washington    State      Classroom      Based Assessment	5th Grade	900s       Social Studies The Thirteen Colonies & the Revolutionary War
JoAnn	920's	K-6th Grade	Biography/autobiography
Karen	Washington  State	4th  Grade	Social Studies

 

 

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PROCESS of the Assignment

 

1. Select your field experience school and collection focus

2. Print of field experience sheet and get teacher librarian and principal signatures for project

3. Decide the collection focus with teacher librarian

4. Allocate a budget-- Washington Learns suggest $20 per student for elementary and middle school and $25 per student high school. Find the number and figure out the total budget

5. Use no more than 10% of the budget for this improvement

6. Use the textbook , particularly Tool 6 , Tool 8, Tool 10 to accompany your task

7. Prepare a presentation for March 22-- it can be powerpoint or web page or alternative approved by Nadean

a. Determining factors- local, curriculum, state, learner-centered

b. Collection analysis- process, summary, tools used

c. Process of selection- justification of 10% of budget

d. How to include stakeholders

e. Writing a need for additional funding or outside funding

8. Field experience form must be returned to Nadean by the last week of class before Thursday night

9. You need to turn in copies of anything given to your field teacher librarian and a one page reflection paper on this experience and how you would apply it to your own school library in the future.

 

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