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At Perry Hall Middle School, library media specialist Joyce focuses on collaborative planning with language arts teachers to enhance student research skills. Utilizing databases, particularly fee-based ones for credibility, students are taught valuable research methodologies. Key skills include Dewey Decimal classification, reliable resource identification, and note-taking. Despite challenges like the lack of a formal curriculum and the need to adapt to evolving student needs, the LMS actively engages in teaching essential library skills and promoting literacy across disciplines.
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Library Field Study #2 Shannon Mayhew, Lisa Venker, Katie Heer, Angelica Grant
Planning and Collaboration • Sign up book • Most collaboration with reading teachers • With Destiny, Joyce can now teach Lexiles • All Language Arts classes come in for research
Curriculum and Resources • Does not have a formal curriculum • Relies on curricula from other discipline • Uses the Research Models supplied by the Office of Library Information Services
Students and Teacher Perceptions • PHMS students see the LMS as a teacher • Sometimes other teachers are surprised that an LMS makes the same amount as classroom teachers.
Databases and Instruction • Fee-based databases are emphasized due to their credibility • Students learn that fee-based content is more authoritative compared to Internet sites such as Wikipedia • Teachers encourage students to use databases when they require multiple sources
Dewey Skills (Secondary Level) • Kids are not coming to PHMS with Dewey skills as in previous years • LMS uses Destiny to help introduce kids to the catalog and Dewey
Organization Skills Taught to Staff • Any computer use, with help of technology committee • Research use • Materials available • Retrieval Rack System (video/CD) • Use of copy machines • Email use • Fee-Based Data Bases
Most Important Skills taught to Staff • Planning ahead • Think of their students work of the process, not just end result • Reflect on their use of Library Media Center
Organization Skills Taught to Students • Library skills • Dewey Decimal System • Fee-based Data Bases • Reliable/Non-Reliable resources • Uses for Library Books • Use of Sources • Reading Class Lessons • Use of Destiny • Use of Lexiles • Science Research • English Research Project
Most Important Skills Taught to Students • How library is organized • Taking notes • Identify gaps in the process • Following research model • Self assessing through process • Teaching the catalog, Lexiles
Ordering, Receiving, and Prepping Materials • LMS has total control over ordering (Follett, Borders, Costco) • 2 positive reviews required for each book ordered • Books sent to PHMS • Records sent to OLIS • Email sent to PHMS when records have been updated • PHMS processing includes adding Dewey spine label, PHMS and price label, barcode and date stickers, year, book number, and glue pocket. • Union Catalog is on its way!
Rewards of being an LMS: • Working with everyone and all disciplines • Watching students grow and learn from 6th – 8th grade • Teaching reading and research • Booktalking! • Working with books and technology
Duties during MSA: • Gives MSA when teachers are absent • Assists new teachers with the MSA • During the Science MSA, our LMS is in the room with the students and is on call to help with any technical issues
Responsibilities Other LMS Might Not Have: • Media Retrieval Rack • 12 VCRs • 1 DVD/VCR • Operated from classroom telephones • LMS troubleshoots • Clears numbers • Keeps log • Inventories equipment • Calls for repairs • Manually operates when remote access is not working
Downsides of LMS position: • Giving out supplies • No test to measure student library skills (“You measure what you treasure!”) • Difficult to select appropriate materials for middle schoolers • No scheduled planning mods • More “stuff” to manage every year • Technology: Great when it’s working! (a challenge when it’s not.)
Hispanic and Bilingual Collections in BCPS: • Dumbarton Middle School has a bilingual collection • Perry Hall Middle School does not carry books in the Spanish language • As the need increases at PHMS, books will be purchased in the Spanish language