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