Banned Book Week

This month we celebrated Banned Book Week with visual displays throughout the library. The library staff also engaged in individual and group conversations with students about challenged and banned books and the purpose of banned book week, thereby addressing State Library Standard 8 Benchmark 1. Banned Book Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Book Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of

censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.--from the ALA website

For more details about Banned Book Week visit the following sites:

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ok5e7lf4bQ

Students working on the Library

Treasure Hunt

Mission

The Larned Middle School Library will be an inviting, user-friendly hub providing opportunities for active, engaging and challenging learning for students and staff through various media resources, programming and collaboration. The LMS Library will provide a quality program that will enable students to be lifelong learners and enhance the curriculum and technology standards of Larned Middle School.

Students checking out the new William Allen White nominees

LARNED MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARYSEPTEMBER MONTHLY REPORT

GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST JANICE KNEISLEY, LIBRARY ASSISTANT

Program HighlightsLMS LIBRARY

INTERNET IDENTITY

Card Catalog: Allows students and staff to search the collection at school or home--http://98.172.116.52/simple/?sessionid=1NYR545AQ36404832

LMS Library Website: General information on library policies & procedures, programs and Teen Advisory Group--http://www.usd495.net/1507201712277/site/default.asp

• Taught an introduction lesson on the program Pages to Mrs. Strasburg’s

Creative Writing class for the creation of their newsletter.

• Completed the MAP testing in the library. We had minimum library traffic

during testing times; however, we did remain open for individual book

checkout and renewal.

• Began sorting and labeling fiction books into genre types. The following genre

sections have been completed: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery, Realistic

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sports, Horror/Ghosts and Graphic Novels. We

hope to complete the remaining sections by the end of October.

• Reviewed library skills that addressed State Library Standard 1--Benchmark 2,

3, 4, 5 through a library scavenger hunt. Students worked in groups of 2 or 3

to complete the scavenger hunt. As students completed the scavenger hunt,

the library staff checked student work for accuracy.

• Creation of book bundles were started with the assistance of a high school

library TA. Book bundles are 3 books that are bundled together based on a

common aspect, such as similarity in setting, cover images or character types.

Data Snapshots

LMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010LMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010LMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010

Total Circulation 19511951

5th Grade Circulation 805805

6th Grade Circulation 475475

7th Grade Circulation 182182

8th Grade Circulation 227227

Other 262262

Card Catalog Total Page Hits 17511751

Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 4646

Filled Denied

Total Resource Requests 40 1

Desktop Computers in Library 3 0

Laptop Computers 31 0

TV/DVD/Video 2 1--none available

Library--research, checkout, etc. 0 0

Other 4 0