Barret Annual Reports: 2014-15

*The library was inventoried on August 4, 2014.The fiction section was weeded.

*There were two book fairs this year. One was with Scholastic and the other was Barnes & Noble.

* I introduced 10 Nooks to the collection. Each Nook has 15 books.

* Collaboration was very important  this year with 7th grade science.

* On March 3,2015, author Chad Morris came to Barret TMS.

At the Barret Library: we have a computer lab with 32 work stations and 10 Nooks. Technology is used for CITTS, Moby Max, Web Quests, student research, citation & copyright laws, Microsoft Office, KET EncylcoMedia, and e-Hub (Perma Bound eBooks) online books data base.

Money is budgeted for supplies, A.V. Equipment, magazines, and books.  The library purchases twenty magazines. These are used for teaching supplements and student leisure reading. Books are purchased through Perma Bound and Jr. Library Guild. Jr. Library Guild books are highly reviewed and curriculum related.  It includes a History, Science and Social Studies book.  The rest of the books fit into a genre category such as “mystery, fantasy, etc.”  It is a set of twelve books that come monthly to the school. Perma Bound books have library binding, which handles the high use. The PTSA donates to the library to buy books. The last two years that PTSA money has been spent on Nonfiction curriculum content books.

The past few years, I have worked on updating the non-fiction collection. I also maintain a “current” fiction section for Language Arts (*novel units) and student interest. The table below reflects an increase in the following areas, that are most used for learning and instruction.  

The time frame is from April 2014 until January 2015. See Chart below.

( * novel units equals an increase of fiction books in the collection for the purpose of the Language Arts teachers to teach a novel to their classes by grade level.)

The number of checkout, check-in, etc. are in the Circulation Activity Report. The beginning of the year is always busy for checkout. Then is becomes fairly consistent for the rest of the year. September and October reflect the busiest months for check out.

The students use the Barret library OPAC web site a lot for research, instruction, data bases and to search the online card catalog to find items in the library.  There are many library lessons for library skills, citing your work, research using the Barret OPAC web site.