Trends in LibraryServices and Programming

Rachel Shankles, LMSLakeside High School

Hot Springs, AR

My Tiny Library Leaves Its Mark

Spinners withGraphic Novels

increased their

circulation

Magazines of all types from Dirt Biking to US

Free Daily Newspapers to give away

Whirligigs changed each month

Comfortable Seating

Plan Ahead – Plan now for next year

• Library ‘celebration weeks’ with themes from ALA or ‘Months’ to celebrate

• Events you plan using free or inexpensive speakers

• Contests you conduct and get donations for prizes to give

• Book Fairs• Beginning of Year Themes for your whole

school

2011-2012 “Teen Weeks”• Banned Books Week- last week in September into October “Celebrating

the Freedom to Read”; http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm - I dress as a prisoner one day; we wrap displays with caution type or brown paper bags and put up signs with X’s on covers of banned books; print lists from the ALA site of most banned books of decade

• Teen Read Week – For Fall 2011, “Picture It @ your library,” which encourages teens to read graphic novels and other illustrated materials, seek out creative books, or imagine the world through literature, just for the fun of it. “Books with a Beat” for 2010 – 3rd week in October - http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2010/home.cfm - I book my book fair this week and have music at lunch and drawings each day for book sets or posters

• Teen Tech Week –This year “Mix & Mash@Your Library” 2nd week in March; voting between these for next spring now "ESC @ your library," "FYI @ your library," and "Geek Out @ your library." http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teentechweek/ttw11/home11.cfm - invite Best Buy; a local geek or your tech director to talk about trends and gadgets; do a Techno Zoo Day

Children’s Celebrations• Children’s Book Week - May 2 – 8, 2011;

http://www.bookweekonline.com/ with posters and book marks

• School Library Month – April – “Create your own Story @ Your library ” http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslissues/slm/schoollibrary.cfm

• National School Library Week- April 10 – 16, 2011

• Dr. Seuss’s Birthday - March 2nd each year coincides with Read across America Day- http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Dr__Seuss/

Months to Celebrate• Black History Month – February- ASMSA Steppers or Gospel Choir

called Diamonds in the Rough from Hot Spgs High School or local speakers or teachers or Amanda Driver doing Equal Education in ARk

• Women’s History Month- March- work with art to design a bulletin board for you; Infamous Women from History was our most famous one

• Poetry Month- April- host a contest that goes along with poetry taught at each grade level in your building, give prizes, publish a booklet; readings at lunch by teachers or winners of contests

• Music in the Schools Month- March – invite teacher and student musicians to play at lunch once a week

• Multicultural Month – January- multicultural fair• Arkansas Heritage Month – May*You can collaborate with different curriculum areas to come up with

decorations and programming for these themed months

Ideas for Free Speakers• List of speakers on my wiki at

http://aaimlibrarywiki.wikispaces.com• Arkansas Historical Preservation Society programs• Arkansas Attorney General’s Office does free

programs for students and staff from cyberbullying to identity theft to sexting to internet safety

• Civil War Sesquicentennial website - http://www.arkansascivilwar150.com/

• New authors will usually come free or at a reduced price so look for local AR authors in your area

The AHPP Education Outreach Coordinator is available on a limited basis to visit 3rd-12th grade classes, homeschool groups, scout troops and other organizations. Contact us now to reserve your presentation! Call  (501) 324-9880  (501) 324-9880 or email educationoutreach@arkansasheritage.org

We will Persevere! Historic Sites of Arkansas Associated with the New DealThe Queen of the Delta: Historic Sites of Helena and the Arkansas Delta*Arkansas's Civil War Sites and BattlefieldsTake the Last Train to Clarksville: Arkansas's Historic Depots and Railroad History*Arkansas's Haunted Historic Sites (this program changes every school year)*Equal Education: Historic Sites and Schools in Arkansas Associated with the African American Education Experience.Historic Architecture in Arkansas*History in Your Backyard  (This program can be tailored to a specific community)History Happened in Arkansas?  Arkansas's National Historic LandmarksLaw and Order on the Western Frontier: Fort Smith National Historic Site Mysteries of the Mound Builders: Parkin and Toltec Archeological Sites8Rohwer:  Japanese-American Internment in Arkansas

Amanda Driver is new Presenter for Ark. Historical Preservation Society

http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/

Miscellaneous ‘doable’ events• Hot Cocoa and a Movie (last week before

Christmas during finals during lunch)- we made $250 on hot choc in a month

• Veteran’s Day poetry contest• I bought a small pop corn machine and I give

away or sell it at times to draw a crowd• I sold boxes of ‘sweet tarts for your

sweetheart’ on Valentine’s Day this year; my workers have made paper roses/flowers before and sold them

Arkansas Book Awards• Remember to push whatever reading list is

established for your age group whether Diamond, Simon, or Arkansas Teen Book Award.

• Each reading list is usually sent to the AAIM listserv with links to resources. Simon and Diamond vote in spring and Ark Teen Book Award voting takes place during Teen Read Week each fall with the book list coming out in December of the preceding year.

Civil War Sesquicentennial

http://www.arkansascivilwar150.com/• Arkansas Living History Association:

http://www.arkansaslivinghistory.com• Mississippi Valley Educational Programs: http://www.mvep.org• A Soldier's Story: http://19thcenturyhistory.us• A Woman's Point of View: www.speakingofladies.com• Southern Division Re-Enactors: http://www.southerndivision.org/• Call you local Historical Society to see if they will come do a

program on this next year or call a nearby state park ranger to do a program

• The main website at top of page has enewsletter with monthly events and a speakers bureau and podcasts and lots of stuff

• Passport program for state battlefields and civil war museums• Lesson plans on Thinkfinity.org

Events You Plan• Celebrate Arkansas Heritage Month in May• Plan some Civil War events for next year• Most Admired Teacher Contest for late in year and votes

are a quarter a piece• Poe party in October• Ghost Stories or Urban Legends in October using “Scary

Story Reader” from August House• We the People Bookshelf event- If you get this grant

decorate in red/white/blue and invite your Congressmen in for a photo op to be put in the paper

• YA Café- Book talks at lunch once a month and the kids bring in lunches and you sell hot cocoa or popcorn or something- get teachers to volunteer to do the book talks or your principal

Themes for Future AR Heritage Months: The theme for 2011 is "Conflict & Consequence:

Commemorating the Civil War."

• 2012 – Arkansans at Work (MTCC)

2013 – Historic Neighborhoods (AHPP)

2014 – Arkansas Foodways (HAM)

2015 – Performing Arts (AAC)

2016 – Old State House Museum

2017 – Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission

2018 – Delta Cultural Center •

http://www.arkansasheritage.com/plan/

Community Collaborations• Food Drives in November or December with a theme (see my wiki for

ideas); this year mine was ‘Fill’er Up’ and we had a giant gas tank• Pet food drive• Jeans for Teens drive• Recycle site for batteries, cell phones, ink cartridgesPublicize in newslettersand on the district web site a lot• Letters to Soldiers around Veteran’s Day- leave computer running song video That is patriotic with forms for them to fillIn and put in box; send some to newspaper and Mail the rest to soldiers• We the People Grants ask you to invite your congressmen in to view

the display and that is a good PR move

Faculty Outreach• Get a birthday list and give a treat to each faculty member on their

bday; this year I used Smarties in a bag and the card says, “We have Books and we’re too smart not to wish you a happy birthday!”

• Do a newsletter once a month or bimonthly with photos of what is happening in classrooms and in your library; note awards given teachers and other family events and put a book talk in there too

• Tech Tuesday classes this year for staff dev after school; they got one hour and I got $25. . .not much but it was well received

• Dancing bodies, whose feet, whose pets, whose kids are these using faculty photos

• Wednesday Websites email – save some favorite websites to share with staff each Wednesday via email

• Most Admired Teacher Contest – sell votes• Arkansas/school mascot photo contest – let students vote for a

nickel• Locate speakers and invite classes in to hear them/scan local paper

for speakers at the community clubs and invite them

Whole School Involvement• Beginning of year themes – Lakeside Rocks 2010-11;• Roundup; Aloha, Welcome Back; Rock n Roll@ the

Library; You are a star at LHS• All year themes- Go Hog Wild About Reading – It’s a Zoo• Posters for halls, door signs with teacher photos• Tee shirt or polo designed for your theme- you make

the profit for the library activity account if you design and sell it

• Contests like Veteran’s Day Poetry Contest; Where in the World questions for Multicultural Month; whose feet are these; Banned books questions; Photography contests; Podcast contest;

Recognizing Seniors in MayCut out flying saucers or race cars or use the login screen. Hand them out in Senior English Classes and the kids fill out where they want to be next year using their name@ whatever. Plaster the bulletin board and the kids will stand around and read everyone’s sheet

My school is building an

addition next year so

the theme will be

“Building a Brighter

Future”; I may buy

some yellow plastic

hard hats for beginning

of school for teachers.

The posters show the

bosses in hard hats-

Photoshopped into a

carpentry scene

Library Services are ChangingHave for sale: flash drives, discs, ear buds; hilightersProvide for checkout: • Flip cameras & digital cameras (sets for teachers or individually for

video projects in English, OC or History)• eReaders (Kindles, iPads, Nooks, generics, iTouch, iPods)----for

reading books on not game playing• Netbooks or laptops with Word/Powerpoint/ereader programs• Memory Card Readers• Ebooks for downloading (free in public domain or purchased sets

or services (Overdrive, Netlibrary, FollettShelf)Sponsor after Hours Classes for students or teachers:• Book Clubs for Faculty and students• Tech Tuesday Classes (teach Wordle, Glogster, Photovisi, Igoogle)• Research Strategies for upper gradesWeed your Reference Collection:Purchase databases instead and make room for leisure reading and

computing areas in the library; it should not look stuffed with books

Update Methodology• Get netbook/mini laptops and make a Google

doc form for signing in and out of the library• It date and time stamps it• It saves trees• Some netbooks like the Dells I use are rubber

on outside in case they are pushed off the counter.

• Could be wireless but would need long battery life

• Position one or two for use close to entrance

My new sign in stations

Call or email me for more information:

Rachel_Shankles@lakesidesd.org501-262-1530