chs practicum

Iowa City High School Library Practicum Daphne Foreman

Winter – Spring 2011

City High Adapts

•WPA-Built in 1939 with many additions and renovations

•1350 Students: in Grades 9-12

•100+ Teachers, 3 Principals

Renovated Library Facility 7600 Square Feet

Study, Research Areas

2 Teaching Areas

3 Labs, 235 Computers

Library Staff Two Full-Time

Certified Librarians Two Media

Secretaries

Technology Services Staff

Tech Services Director

Tech Services Secretary

Areas of FocusTeaching and Learning with

TechnologyManaging a Well-Funded Collection

Focus Area 1: Teaching and Learning with Technology

Marketing Class: iMovie Commercials

Creative Writing Color Poem Podcasts

Creative Writing Digital Poetry Collections

Marketing Class Commercials

Students developed product proposals that embodied marketing principles and I-Movies to promote them

Creative Writing Poetry Collections

Art and Creative Expression Need Time to Develop

Focus Area 2: Collection Management

5300 Fiction Books 9500 Non-Fiction

26 Print Magazines 5 Print Newspapers

20+ Electronic Databases

Magazine Survey

Students 40 % of Student

Respondents Prefer Seventeen and ESPN

31% Read National Geographic

Teachers Few Teachers

Responded to Survey

Most Never Read Magazines in LMC

Weeding the Fiction Collection

For each volume, we examined:

Condition / Circulation History

Wilson, Award, Curriculum Collection Stickers

Related Titles, Other Editions

For each discarded volume, we ordered replacements or substitutions on the spot

Resource Lists Unite Library and Curriculum

Other Weeding Decisions

Reparable? Appropriate?

Other Management Challenges

Equipment Storage

New & Old Equipment and Supplies Pile Up

Extended Hours

Homework Club Needs a New Home

Reflections

Reflections