Banned Book Week

This month we celebrated Banned Book Week with visual displays, posters and videos. The library staff engaged in individual and group conversations with students about challenged and banned books and the purpose of banned book week. 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://lhslib2007.edublogs.org/2010/09/26/its-banned-book-week/

http://lhslib2007.edublogs.org/2010/09/28/do-u-read-banned-books/

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

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

Seniors working on project for

Mrs. Schmidt’s science class

Mission

The Larned High 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 LHS Library will provide a quality program that will enable students to be lifelong learners and enhance the curriculum and technology standards of Larned High School.

Working on online college courses available this year to juniors & seniors

LARNED HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARYSEPTEMBER MONTHLY REPORT

GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST PAM FITZGERREL, LIBRARY ASSISTANT

Program HighlightsLHS LIBRARY INTERNET IDENTITY

Card Catalog: Allows students and staff to search the collection at school or home, access eBooks, renew & place holds on books--http://98.172.116.51/simple/?sessionid=1NYR545AQ36404832

LHS Library Blog: Information relating to books, technology, events, news and more--http://lhslib2007.edublogs.org/

LHS Library Facebook Page: Updates on events, programs, books and more--http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Larned-KS/Larned-High-School-LMC/221632271653

LHS Library Website: General information on library policies & procedures, programs and Teen Advisory Group--http://www.usd495.net/150620171264587/site/default.asp

LHS Library Delicious: Collection of bookmarks selected specifically for the needs of staff & students at LHS--http://www.delicious.com/lhslib2010

LHS Library Flickr: Shared photos--http://www.flickr.com/photos/socdownload/

• Assisted Freshmen English class with mythology reports on the gods and

goddesses.

• Completed the MAP testing in the library with Mr. Schiedeman’s freshmen

English classes. We had minimum library traffic during testing times; however,

we did remain open for computer check out.

• LHS Library Teen Advisory Group, currently consisting of 10 high school

students and sponsored by Ms. Lehman, established the following yearly goals:

Get students more involved in books & reading; Be more active in future

selections for the library; Generate and promote book reviews on the library

website, blog or Facebook page

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

sections have been completed: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery and Graphic

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

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

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

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

Bundles will be placed on display for checkout before the end of October.

Data SnapshotsLHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010LHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010LHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010

Total Circulation 575575

9th Grade Circulation 169169

10th Grade Circulation 7979

11th Grade Circulation 9393

12th Grade Circulation 6464

Other 177177

Card Catalog Total Page Hits 10461046

LHS Library Blog 2020

LHS Library Facebook Page Active Users 2727

Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 6161

Interlibrary Loan--Loaned Total 66

Interlibrary Loan--Borrowed Total 66

Filled Denied

Total Resource Requests 51 1

Desktop Computers in Library 17 0

Laptop Computers 17 1--duplicate ticket

Multimedia Cart (projector, DVD/VCR, speaker) 8 0

TV--DVD/VCR 3 0

Camera--digital & video 4 0

Other 2 0