Our fifth and sixth graders check out the most items and last year our seventh and eighth grade circulation increased 18% and 26% respectively. Two thousand items were added to our collection in 2008/2009 mostly through donations from our library partners. Thank you Friends of the Library!!
The library policies permit students to check out three items at one time to maximize access to student resources. Students are permitted to check out books for two weeks, magazines for one week and reference materials and equipment overnight. Students may renew items in the library or at home via the Internet if a hold has not been placed on the item. If students are unable to pay their late fines, we do accept donations of Kleenex or hand sanitizer to equal $1 in value. Please see the student hand book for further description of our library policies.
This year we are using a new Microsoft Access system to scan students in and out of the library. Not counting scheduled classes with teachers, since September 2009, we have had over 5,450 students working independently in the library during class or intervention time.
Our library space includes three, thirty computer labs as well as a ten laptop lab. We coordinate classroom use for a thirty laptop mobile computer lab. Our library includes three laser printers, two scanners, one student copier (10 cents per page) and two LCD projectors for classroom instruction. Teachers are able to check out the library space using an online scheduling system called phpScheduleIt. The scheduling system allows us to monitor and retain usage information for our facilities.
The NRMS library coordinates equipment use through our building for LCD/VCR-DVD carts, visual presenters, classroom performance systems, Smart Boards and other audio/video equipment. In the school year 2008/2009 we coordinated 1,600 equipment requests in our building.
The library has one annual scholastic book fair fundraiser that our community, parents, staff and students support generously. We are thankful for the profits that allow our library to purchase additional equipment and resources for our students.
Our school uses informational databases subscriptions from InfOhio and Gale; video streaming services from BrainPOP, United Streaming and Learn360 and other classroom management tools such as Moodle and on-line textbook resources. In the 2010 school year we will be adding originality authentication with Turn It In. NRMS uses Channel One resources to pipe various media and our student morning show to the TVs in the classrooms. Passwords to our subscription databases are located in the media center since the information cannot be posted online.
We are fortunate to have a courier system between our school and the public library so teachers with educator cards can have their materials delivered directly to our school if they wish. We are also able to use public library materials for student checkout by ordering the materials on our institution card and then checking out the materials through our school’s library catalog.
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