Mission  StatementThe  mission  of  the  Rosewood  Elementary  School  Library  Media  Center  is  to  create  effective  seekers  and  users  of  information  promoting  life-­‐long  learning.    Our  commitment  is  to  support  the  community  of  learning  in  the  following  ways;  by  maintaining  convenient  and  effective  access  to  high  quality  services,  by  maintaining  a  collection  that  represents  a  variety  of  formats,  and  by  maintaining  information  resources  designed  to  meet  the  curriculum,  research,  professional,  intellectual,  creative  and  personal  needs  of  the  Rosewood  Community.  

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Library Hours:Monday - Friday

7:15 -2:45

Lena M. LeeTeacher-Librarian

lelee@richlandone.org(803)343-2932

Elizabeth JenkinsLibrary Assistant

ejenkins@richlandone.org

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Media Center

Newsletter

Volume 1 Issue 1 August/September 2012!

Welcome back to school! I am so excited to be here at Rosewood! I have a B.A. in African American Studies from the University of South Carolina. Before pursuing my Masters in Library and Information Science Degree (University of South Carolina), I worked for the SC House of Representatives as a research assistant drafting higher education policy legislation.I would like to continue to explore collaborative opportunities and develop library programming that excites students and teachers. I am also interested in heightening the awareness of the correlation between classroom instruction, library usage and student achievement, while continuing to grow professionally.

My husband Morgan and I have a nine-year-old son Chapman.

In the past, a school library was a place to check out books, pay overdue fines, maybe check out an overhead projector, and always be “shushed” by the librarian. Today’s library media center at Rosewood is a place where you can continue to check out a book but you will not f ind many overhead projectors, overdue fines, or anyone “shushing” you. The library media center is a busy place. Our Rosewood library media center is a place for reading; a place for writing; a place for discussion; a place for learning.

Christy Moore, an elementary literacy coach, defines authentic literacy this way: “Literacy learning experiences that focus on meaningful reading, discussing, and writing activities that help

the learner to construct their own understandings and develop problem solving skills. The students do real reading, writing, and discussing for real purposes as they would in the real world, not just the school world.”

I am here to guide students, to foster their love for reading, writing and discussion. I am here for the teachers, to help them in planning and presenting lessons, in collaborative instruction, and to support the fine work they do. I am here for the parents, to work with them and beside them as they support literacy activities at home and at school, to answer questions of parents and to even provide a space for parents to read, write and discuss.

The Rosewood library media center is full of tradition, but it is also steeped in the hope for the future.

It is not what it used to be…

A place for reading; a place for writing; a place for discussion; a place for learning!

Meet our new teacher-librarian!

Library Media Center Advisory CommitteeThe Purpose of the LMCAC

The school library media center advisory committee works in an advisory capacity with the library media center

professional staff much as the school improvement council works with the building-level principal. The advisory committee serves as the leading

advocate for the school library media program both within and beyond the school.

Ideally, the library advisory committee’s membership should be diverse and broad-based and should include the following:

•the entire library media center professional staff,

•the principal or her designee,•teachers•parents •district office staff (at least one),•business partner (at least one),

and•community-at-large representative

(at least one)The LAC works with the professional

staff to conduct regular needs assessments, conduct regular student and faculty surveys to gauge customer satisfaction, develop strategic plans, collect relevant data to show impact of LMC program on student achievement, facilitate collaboration and advocate for the school’s library media program.

Collection GuidanceOne of the most common purposes

for an LMCAC is to help the LMC professional staff guide materials acquisitions for the library media program. The committee offers suggestions to the LMS and discusses how the LMS has decided to spend funds.

Book Challenge Committee

The LMCAC also serves when there is a book or instructional materials challenge in the school. Richland School District One has a policy guiding the response to a challenge, and we will follow all policies and procedures as outlined by our district.

Program GuidanceBeyond collection guidance and

challenged materials response the LMCAC can support and guide library programs. In it’s role of program guidance the committee serves to help plan programming, find funding, and help with events scheduled in the library media center.

Welcome back to a great year of teaching and learning! I hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing summer! I am so excited that I will be your Technology Educator again this year! In the next couple of weeks, I will be working with Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Paschal, and your awesome new Media Specialist to plan technology training topics and dates for the school year. Please contact me at eherbig@richlandone.org if you have any special technology training requests for the school year. I look forward to working with you!

A message from Emily...

The committee will meet this fall and in the spring. If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Lee in the library media center lelee@richlandone.org.

Visual Literacy is the ability to create, interpret and appreciate images and video in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication, and learning.

Richland One's Visual Literacy Festival is a collection of individual contests designed to acknowledge the work done by the students and faculty of Richland District One in the areas of non-print media and non-traditional print media. The work presented is not produced specifically for these contests but rather is material prepared for standards-based class projects during the school year.  These exhibitions give the students the opportunity to obtain recognition for their work and to see how it compares with that done by other students within  their grade levels from across the district.

 

The contests are open to all students and faculty members of

Richland School District One.

Dates to submit entries will be published as soon as they become

available.

what to expect @ your library!September is librarycard signup month

Positive Thinking Day 9/13

Talk Like a Pirate Day 9/19

National Punctuation Day 9/24

National Banned Book Week 9/24-10/1

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Always have a book with you.

Arrive at a practice, or appointment early

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Skip making a few social phone calls.

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- Enough said!

Find Your Destiny...with our library catalog!

Title

Call Number

Author

Reading Level

Number of Copies we own

Number of copies available

Book Search

Did you know...

• Destiny is a web-based application http://destiny.richlandone.org/

• Destiny offers numerous search options (keyword, title, Author, subject, series)

• You can search and borrow from any school in the district (inter library loan)

• You can search by material type (book, audio, magazine, etc.)

• Destiny offers reading level information to help teachers and students find books on their level

COMING SOON! Title Peek which is a Destiny feature that shows the picture of the book where the red

book icon is below in the book search example entry.