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Patron
Management
- For overdue reports, read Destiny documentation on the subject
open the Patrons tab of Reports in the Back Office and select Checked Out/Overdue Materials & Unpaid Fines. For further information, click the help icon or go to Destiny online help and search on "overdue report." Follow the directions outlined in the document.
Elementary Media
Center Preparation
- Library
Scheduling: coordinate with music and PE scheduling and
work with teachers on special needs. Leave Monday afternoons
unscheduled after 1:30 to accommodate monthly district LMS
meetings and occasional training.
- Library
schedule will include at least a weekly 30 minute release
time for grades 3-5. Classroom teacher should accompany
K-2 students for all library sessions. There are a variety
of scheduling models in use across the district.
- Flexible
scheduling in the computer lab is encouraged. Teachers may
sign up and teach their own technology classes in the lab
or may team with the LMS.
- Plan
with Library Assistant for on-going duties and responsibilities
- Recruit and train parent volunteers
- Student
Helpers Training (optional). Design the training based on
the job needs. Check with other ELMS on how they use student
volunteers.
Student
Accounts
- Network
services will provide a spreadsheet of student accounts and passwords. Refer to "Make Your Own Label" directions in Outlook Tech Tips.
- Order
student Internet/e-mail permission slips from Karen Lofton.
- File
and save all returned, signed permission slips.
- Send
last year's 5 th grade permission slips to the feeder middle
school LMS if this hasn't already been done.
First
month library sessions
- Share
literature through read-aloud.
- Library
procedures: check out procedures, check out limits, placing
holds, how to do independent check out, when library is
open, behavior expectations
- Location
and use of materials
- Appropriate
computer uses during library sessions: searching for books,
use of e-mail, Internet usage limits?
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Book care and computer care
- What's
new in library
First
Lab Activities
- Schedule
lab time for grades 3-5 classes for logon introduction,
generally starting with grade 5.
- Schedule
another lab or library time to go over rules and responsibilities
of network and Internet use.
Hand out Internet/e-mail permission slips to all grade 3
students and those in grades 4 and 5 who do not have a current
Internet account.
- Work
with teachers to set times for Keyboarding
instruction.
Other
Fall Library Sessions
- Introduce
or review Library Search strategies: keyword, title, author,
series, subject, visual.
- Introduce
or review computer programs that students may use independently
during library sessions.
- Book
talk new books and have students share good books they have
read over the summer.
- Introduce
Sasquatch Award Nominees if you plan to participate. See
WLMA homepage (www.wlma.org)
School
Web Page
- Update
calendar of activities for Fall
- Update
staff changes and e-mail addresses
- Update
other information as needed
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