To be honest, we haven't had any slow days in the library during my practicum experience. My first week was back from a break and almost all the students came through the library, the second finished with Battle of the Books, and the third prepared for the Book Fair. This week, the only big event is Spring Break next week! Today was also a big storm day in Georgia and South Carolina, so many students were checked out of school early. Spring Break plus few students made for my first slow day in the library!
This meant it was a perfect week to do the inventory/weeding/ordering and compare my SLIS 720 Program Analysis project with Mrs. Edgerton. This is what we focused on today. We looked into the End of Year report that Cindy makes for the principal each year to see what highlights Mrs. Henderson looks for. The report predominately focused on finances, Accelerated Reader, and circulation numbers.
I also used TitleWave online and the ABDO paper catalog to finish the development of the biographies section. We focused our order on three things: low level texts, Explorers/Revolutionary War/Civil War curriculum content, and current pop icons.
TitleWave has an "advanced search" option that we set for K-3 levels, published after 2014, and included at least two reviews. I had to manipulate the search terms a bit to garner enough new results that weren't already part of the collection at Ravenel. I also had to include levels 4-6 to browse further texts. Especially as the fourth grade students research for a wax museum of Revolutionary War people, some of the texts in the higher range would still be appropriate. Once I searched all three topics, 12 books could be added to the collection.
The ABDO catalog organized texts by content, then by series. Unfortunately, the page organization was not organized by age range, but still by series. Essentially, each spread was on one topic (i.e. athletes, musicians, presidents, etc), but the pages alternated or sometimes randomly listed grade level appropriateness. It was a little challenging to read through the catalog this way, so we had to be extra attentive when looking at which books to order.
Both methods were fairly easy and seem to offer some excellent biography sections to add to the library.
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