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Iowa City High School Library Practicum Daphne Foreman Winter – Spring 2011

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Iowa City High School Library Practicum Daphne Foreman

Winter – Spring 2011

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City High Adapts

•WPA-Built in 1939 with many additions and renovations

•1350 Students: in Grades 9-12

•100+ Teachers, 3 Principals

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Renovated Library Facility 7600 Square Feet

Study, Research Areas

2 Teaching Areas

3 Labs, 235 Computers

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Library Staff Two Full-Time

Certified Librarians Two Media

Secretaries

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Technology Services Staff

Tech Services Director

Tech Services Secretary

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Areas of FocusTeaching and Learning with

TechnologyManaging a Well-Funded Collection

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Focus Area 1: Teaching and Learning with Technology

Marketing Class: iMovie Commercials

Creative Writing Color Poem Podcasts

Creative Writing Digital Poetry Collections

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Marketing Class Commercials

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

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Creative Writing Poetry Collections

Art and Creative Expression Need Time to Develop

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Focus Area 2: Collection Management

5300 Fiction Books 9500 Non-Fiction

26 Print Magazines 5 Print Newspapers

20+ Electronic Databases

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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

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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

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Resource Lists Unite Library and Curriculum

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Other Weeding Decisions

Reparable? Appropriate?

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Other Management Challenges

Equipment Storage

New & Old Equipment and Supplies Pile Up

Extended Hours

Homework Club Needs a New Home

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Reflections

Reflections