Minutes Jan 22, 2013 East Haven

CLC School Librarian Roundtable South

Tuesday, January 23, 2013                                                                East Haven High School

Name	School/Facility	e-mail
Laura Calabrese	Clinton Middle	lcalabrese@public.net
Kristie McGarry	Derby HS	kmcgarry@derbyps.org
Sarah Briggs	Jonathan Law HS, Milford	sbriggs@milforded.org
Tracy Earnshaw	Coginchaug Regional High School, Durham	tearnshaw@rsd13.org
Rachel Rice	East Haven High	ehhslibrarian@gmail.com
Sara Kaluzynski	Stratford High	kaluzynskis@stratfordk12.org

Intros

Budgets and support
Making do on a shoestring

Budgets determine everything!!
Discount vendors baker and Taylor scholastic warehouse

Databases
“I can with icon”
Importance of Advocating

Rachel presenting to Bd of Ed—amazing achievements in 4 years!
Budget

Cost analysis from Titlewise collection analysis

Blog

Continue minutes on blog

Contact Leah to become owners and jazz it up

Minutes will be kept to a bare minimum to reduce stress!

Networking
Casl and lmnet list servs
Website presence

Google Sites; David Loertshner’s Virtual Learning Commons template
Staff newsletters

what teachers are reading
            one page max—does anyone read it?!

Twitter-how and why
#CT-HS_LMS
Summer reading

Socratic circle inner and outer circles
kids who don’t read will find a way to cheat out
After hours
After school learning center grant to pay diff teachers in library

Study nights 2hours per night week before exams-teachers paid by grant
Honor society peer tutoring on Tuesday
Safety—plan

Locked but propped; side rooms.
Come directly vs.escorted by teacherwith rosters
Sign in procedures
Cordless phone for library
generally feel that library is an unsecure place and best efforts are best that can be done

Notes from November 20, 2012 at East Haven HS

School Librarians Roundtable South

Foran High School, Milford              Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 2:45pm

In attendance:

Name	School/Facility	E-mail
David St. Germain	Milford Public Schools	dstgermain@milforded.org
Sarah Briggs	Jonathan Law	sbriggs@milforded.org
Janice Pellegrino	Foran High School	janpellegrino@milforded.org
Rachel Rice	East Haven High School	rrice@mail.east-haven.k12.ct.us
Leah Farrell	CLC	lfarrell@ctlibrarians.org
Kristie McGarry	Derby High School	kmcgarry@derbyps.org
Sara Kaluzynski	Stratford High School	kaluzynskis@stratfordk12.org

Weeding and Collection

Health hazards!

Misinformation

Updating collection - print vs. database, finding a balance?

Information in more than one format for Common Core

Ratios vary widely:      4000 students: 7000books

                                    1100 students: 8000 books

Disposal-comparted to sour milk; Would you give away sour milk to needy?

Cataloging systems-

NEASC-access from home and Destiny

Strategic School profile—reflects print ;will this change in near future?!

Policies

Food/drink/school climate (ordering pizza!?)

Creating more access for those who need the space vs. less access for those who want it

Second year—easier to turn things around when you lose the seniors with memory of precedent, etc

Access—passes, etc

Different models according to space, staff, supervision, etc

Access during lunch

Calendars

Google Docs

Outlook public folders

Alternate Schedules

Block scheduling-how does that work in the LMC

Fewer study halls? More time for projects

Less movement

Mac  for student access

Research Tools

Easy Bib vs NoodleTools

E-mail, etc

Gaggle vs Google Apps for schools

Obligations

Some schools with no fines

Policies vary

Vendors

Barnes and Noble

Open PO convenient for school with local store—also good for fundraisers

Baker and Taylor discounts via CLC

LMC styles

“friendly” can be a detriment’; finding balance is hard

Learned helpfulness

Students and faculty

Freshmen orientation models

EHS-     1. General orientation via English—tour, rules, website, etc

2. Iconn webquest

SHS      1. General orientation, Xtranormal, website scavenger hunt-skipped book location 2^nd year (SS)

            2. NoodleTools citation for multimedia project(Eng)

            3. databases, NoodleTools citation, notecards, outline (SS)

Book Clubs

Structured or informal

Next meeting in East Haven: Jan. 22

Minutes: Oct 4, 2012 meeting

School Librarians Roundtable – South

October 4, 2012

Stratford High School

In Attendance:

Rachel Rice, East Haven HS

Sara Kaluzynski, Stratford High

Sarah Briggs, Law High

Janice Pellegrino, Foran High School

Lucretia Duwel, Stratford Library

Kristie McGarry, Derby High School

Kim Kadeem, Great Oak MS (Oxford)

Leah FarrellCT Library Constortium

Minutes:

Introductions and discussion surrounded the need to collaborate & share ideas. You can’t do this job in a vacuum! It’s beneficial to see other spaces and this roundtable serves as an opportunity to support one another, particularly because most of us do not have library colleagues in our buildings.

Topics:

The start of the year gets easier each year! However, still at issue are the use of devices in school. Cell phones, iPads & E-readers are still prohibited for many of us (Foran is the exception with an open-policy in place). There are variations in use, rules, and enforcement. 

Discussion surrounding the challenge of unique role LMS: Who evaluates us? Is it someone who knows libraries? How do we fit in? How can we not be isolated? We talked about finding teachers to collaborate with in any way we can, whether it’s holding the computer sign-out schedule at your desk or finding them at lunch, in the copy room, etc.

Staffing – Many of us are short-staffed, have no paraprofessional or need to close the library during our lunch time.

Class visitations – It can be very beneficial to visit teacher classrooms for lessons, especially for those students who would be less comfortable in the common area of the library. (non-readers, ELLs)

Curriculum - Some libraries have curriculum or are in the process of writing it. Others have no way of reaching all students across a grade level. Ideas: expanded freshmen orientation, reaching grade levels through common work products.

Public Library connections: Lucretia Duwel was a special guest visitor! We shared our connections with public libraries. Create joint advisory group, work together in any way you can. They are a resource!

Summer Reading: Incentives, some districts require specific books, others don’t. Reading projects vary as well (essays, book discussions at public library, Prezi, blogs)

Some schools conducted voter registration (though not a lot of them are 18), also had public library card signups

Book clubs/Discussion Groups: Discussed format, structure, how to recruit members. Shelfari, Good Reads for logging titles, alternative can also be Destiny Quest for Book Reviews.

CLC - Sarah Briggs is a Board Member. Meetings are monthly in Middletown.

CASL/CECA workshop coming Oct 29.

Oct 4, 2012 Attendees

Thanks for joining us for the CLC School Librarians' Roundtable, South on Oct. 4, 2012 at Stratford HS!
I know many of you want to continue to connect, so below is our contact info.  Our attendees were:

Rachel Rice	East Haven HS	rrice@mail.east-haven.k12.ct.us
Sara Kaluzynski	Stratford HS	kaluzynskis@stratfordk12.org
Leah Farrell	CT Library Constortium	lfarrell@ctlibrarians.org
Janice Pellegrino	Foran HS (Milford)	janpellegrino@milforded.org
Kim Kadeem	Great Oak MS (Oxford)	chu-kadeem@oxfordpublicschools.org
Kristie McGarry	Derby HS	kmcgarry@derbyps.org
Lucretia Duwel	Stratford Library	lduwel@stratfordlibrary.org
Sarah Briggs	Jonathan Law HS (Milford)	briggs@milforded.org