Highlights programs and initiatives that occurred in the Prescott Library's Upper School division on The Wheeler School during the 2012-13 school year.

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Prescott Library 2012‐1213 Report
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Program Highlights:
 Updated Destiny catalog homepage with
Symbaloo to include image hotlinks to various
resources.
 Hired Andrea DeMayo-Clancy to work part-
time between Middle and Upper School libraries.
 Added 6 new databases: Essential Chemistry
Online, Great Empires of the Past Online, Life
in America Online, Teen Health and Wellness,
Today’s Science, and Pop Culture Universe.
 Relocated Audio Video collection into the 3rd
floor general stacks, filing by 100’s and after books.
 Communicated to faculty, staff, and students regarding new acquisitions, useful apps, program highlights and
more via weekly emails.
 Continued Kindle and iPad circulation, adding 4 iPads (as well as wireless 8 Bluetooth keyboards) and 8 more
Kindles to our collection.
 Assessed our print magazine collection via Google surveys to student and staff to determine current use and
future acquisitions.
 Compared various ebook vendors and began contract with Overdrive for 2013-2014 school year.
Instructionally:
 268 classroom visits, including some held in Morgan.
 Revised Noodletools information on LibGuides to reflect
program updates and flipped instruction.
 Revised ninth grade English class orientation to more directly
target library and information skills using TRAILS assessment in
the process.
 Taught mini lesson on paraphrasing during the research
process for 10th
and 11th
graders.
 Supported curricular research projects in History, Science,
English and World Languages through collaboration, cooperation,
LibGuides, and other resources, two examples:
o Collaborated with Betsy Nickerson (for French) on
revising a research project and incorporating Glogster.
o Collaborated with Leah Grear (for Painting) on a project
incorporating ArtStor and the Picha Kucha presentation style.
 Created a flyer for distribution to graduating seniors regarding
library use at the college level.
Upper School Library 2012-2013 School Year At-a-Glance

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Prescott Library 2012‐1213 Report
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Upper School LibGuides
62 Total LibGuides are available for Upper School use
with:
 6 new guides created
 37 guides updated/revised
Peak months of usage:
 November (2,699 hits)
 May (2,757 hits)
Continued
 Book displays for Banned Books week, Senior
Book Bundles, as well as displays for memoirs,
spiders, infrequently borrowed books, and short stories.
 National Library Week trivia questions for faculty and students.
 Using faculty suggestions and recommendations to add materials to the collection.
Professionally:
 Worked together with LS librarian Brooke Strachan to lead faculty and staff in a fall workshop on using
and creating movies for the classroom. Highlighted resources include Animoto and Curriculum on Demand.
 Spoke at with Upper School Parents Association meeting to discuss library programs and services.
 Continued to serve on Rhode Island Teen Book Award (RITBA) committee, the YALSA Blog Advisory
Board, and the YALS Editorial Advisory Board.
 All Wheeler librarians collaborated to lead a school workshop on Google searching entitled, “Search like
a pro.”
Library Collection Records for Middle
& Upper School
3,693 total items circulated from the Middle &
Upper School Library, not including iPads and
Kindles; a 13% increase from last year.
Circulated iPads and Kindles 648 times over the year.
689 print titles and 149 Kindle eBooks added to the
Middle & Upper School collection.
Removed 1,258 items from the collection including
bound National Geographic magazines, reference
titles, and science books.

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Prescott Library 2012‐1213 Report
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Looking Forward – Goals for 2013-14
 Implement a public view calendar of research classes in the library to aid teachers in library requests.
 Establish patron barcodes for users that will move us toward a self-check-out model.
 Launch Overdrive e-reading platform for the entire Middle and Upper School community.
 Attend the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) conference held in Hartford this November.
 Revisit and revise curriculum and resources as needed based on the Upper School BYOD initiative.
Prescott Library
Upper School Statistical Snapshot 2012‐2013 School Year
Total Number of Class visits 267 Sessions Searches
Class Visits 1st
Semester 106 ArtStor 345 2,014
Class Visits 2nd
Semester 161 Biomes of the Earth Online 205 60
Class visits in May alone 90 EBSCO Research Databases 2,602 31,840
Essential Chemistry Online 212 10
Gale Virtual Reference Lib 400
Total Circulation 3,693 Global Exploration Online 82 67
Grade 12 146 Great Empires of the Past 346 76
Grade 11 196 History Reference Center 290 1,548
Grade 10 293 History Study Center 266 490
Grade 9 346 JStor 716 554
Grade 8 201 Life in America Online 243 36
Grade 7 244 Literary Reference Center 50 58
Grade 6 375 Oxford Art Online 345 648
Faculty 1,771 Oxford English Dictionary 287 4,638
Point of View Ref Center 121 132
Pop Culture Universe 69 296
Facebook Followers 101 Science Online 1,002 1,548
Twitter Followers 20 Science Reference Center 804 3,864
Student Research Center 326 1,908
Teen Health and Wellness 47 21
Total LibGuides for Upper School 62 Today’s Science 40 134
NEW Upper School LibGuides Created 6 World Geography 93 355
Existing LibGuides revised/updated 37 World Hist: Ancient & Med. 5 8
Total Hits to Upper School LibGuides 15,407 World History: Modern Era 414 1,193
Total Hits to All School LibGuides 29,932
Respectfully submitted, Kate Covintree