PISD LIBRARIES BY THE NUMBERS, 2011-2012

THIRD NINE WEEKS

January 4 - March 21

14 campuses reporting



STATISTICS:
Classes served:	2302 classes
Students served:	86,932 individual students
Community members served:	5,348 parents, community members, district personnel
Teacher collaborations;	303 librarian/teacher collaboration
Items circulated:	386,277 items
# of days library closed:	57.5 days including STAAR, PFLEX, staff development,  librarian absence
EVENTS:
Book Fairs:	1
Book Clubs:	39
Special Activities:	28 including Black History, Family Literacy Nights, Community All-Read, TX. Bluebonnet Book voting Seussabration, etc.
Guest Speakers:	14 including authors, performers, weathermen, district personnel, community helpers,



LIBRARY HAPPENINGS AROUND THE DISTRICT:

Elementary Librarians:

Our elementary librarians spend a portion of their day teaching our Pflex students . Our GT students have been busy completing their individual Texas Performance Standards Projects.  To help facilitate their work, the librarians have taught them the Big 6 skills of research, including writing good questions, databases, website evaluation, note taking, citing sources, and self-evaluation of their work. 

The elementary librarians have also collaborated with the classroom teachers to teach and enrich the curriculum lessons on rhyming words, idioms, inferencing, sequencing, context clues, and writing good questions. As the information literacy specialist on each campus, the librarians have taken the lead to teach all students the Big 6 research skills of  writing good questions, choosing the best resources, using databases, evaluating web sites, note taking, citing sources, and self-evaluation. The librarians have also prepared lessons teaching the difference between fiction and nonfiction books, biographies and autobiographies.


Working alongside the classroom teachers, the librarians have enriched classroom research by showing our students the wealth of information in our databases, including World Book, Ebsco's Searchasaurus, and on some campuses, Pebble Go.


Boys Book Club at CWES



Seussabration at CWES
R. Balusek, Librarian













 Special activities also took place in all our elementary libraries to commemorate the Chinese New Year, Black History Month, Presidents' Day, Women's History Month, voting for the Texas Bluebonnet Award, and Seussabration, celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday.  Book Clubs are very popular on all our campuses and Caldwell Elementary had Boy's and Girl's Book Clubs with special guests. 



Mr. Dupre reading to children at CWES



Girl's Book Club at CWES



Many of our elementary librarians are involved in leadership positons on their campus and in the district.  The elementary librarians are responsible for the campus video morning announcements and many are responsible for the Geo Bee and the Accelerated Reading programs on their campuses, as well as on the campus CAAC.

Our elementary librarians are always striving to improve their knowledge and skills and several attended the TCEA conference in February, including for the first time,a three-day Librarian's Academy, highlighting the partnership of technology and librarianship.

Secondary Librarians:



 As the information literacy specialists on our campuses our secondary librarians are working hard to teach our students the ethical use of information.  They know how easy it is now for our students to "cut and paste" their research so they have taken the lead in teaching note-taking to comply with copyright law and prevent plagiarism.  Along with that, they are experts in teaching our students how to question every website to determine its authenticity, author's credentials, currency, detail, bias, and the links to and from the website.



Teen Dating Violence Display at WVMS



Our middle and high school librarians brought attention to the issues surrounding Teen Dating Violence Week by creating displays and bringing attention to helpful books available in our libraries. 



Teen Dating Violence Display at HHS









 



Our middle school librarians have taught the in-depth skills of creating Holds on books and writing and posting reviews on our online catalog.  Along with the high school librarians they have taught the students how to create book trailers using Animoto and presentations using Prezi.

And not to be outdone by our elementary librarians, our secondary librarians are also represented on campus and district committees, including the District Insurance Committee and the Budget and Compensation Committee.   One of our librarians even heads the Step Team and Hospitality Committee on her campus. 

Come visit our PISD libraries and see the fantastic things our librarians are doing with our students.  I guarantee you'll want to be a kid again at one of our schools.