1. CREEKVIEW
THE UNQUIET LIBRARY
HIGH
SCHOOL
DECEMBER 2009 MONTHLY REPORT
Buffy Hamilton, School Librarian
Roxanne Johnson, School Librarian
Tammy Beasley, Library Clerk
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2. I like that I cannot rely on my
Program Highlights slides as much. It requires me
to actually learn what my
project is about and not just
Over 2000 hits on our library video, “What copy and paste a whole
Makes a Library a Library?” on YouTube at paragraph into my power
http://www.youtube.com/user/theunquietlibr point then read it right off the
ary#p/u/4/l9oLj8mcnUQ slide when I am presenting. I
Ms. Lester’s students wowed each other and felt that I was more
guest visitors with the “presentation zen” style connected to the class while
talks on their “Issues in Africa” research. presenting and I really liked
The library hosted a special offer in which that, it made me feel better
students could reduce their library fines in about myself while I was
exchange for canned goods to support the actually up in front of the
Creekview HS Canned Food Drive. class.
Ms. Lester’s 9th grade students were
introduced to blogging in Wordpress. 10th grade student
Completion of the Georgia Peach Book Award
research pathfinder, featuring RSS feeds and
widgets for each author’s blog, Twitter
account, Facebook pages, book trailers, author
interviews, and more at Using the “presentation zen”
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/peachb style, I actually had to
ooks-readingbowl ! understand my findings.
Our library blog received over 8600 hits during Because I couldn’t use bullets
the month of December! in my power point, I was
forced to really connect to my
research to talk about it
during my presentation.
10th grade student
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3. Data Snapshots
The Unquiet Library Statistics, December 2009
Number of Class Sessions Served 67
Number of Student Visitors 2883
(Morning, Lunch, Afternoon Hours)
Total Circulation 575
9th Grade Circulation 230
10th Grade Circulation 134
11th Grade Circulation 105
12th Grade Circulation 106
Total GALE Databases Sessions 1590
Gale Virtual Reference Library 767
GALE Discovering Collection 305
Gale Opposing Viewpoints 127
Gale Literature Resource Center 183
Gale Global Issues in Context 80
Gale History Resource Center, 57
World
Gale History Resource Center, U.S. 34
The Unquiet Library Blog 8698
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4. Collaborative Lessons
Learning Activities/Instructional Research Pathfinder Collaborative
Instructional Partner(s)
Introduction to Blogging, 9th Literature/Composition Ms. Lester
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/bloggingandslideshare
Presentation Zen, 10th Literature/Composition Ms. Lester
http://www.theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/presentationzen
Influential Greek Figure Project, 10th Honors Literature/Composition Ms. Orfale
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/influentialgreek
Amendments Cases Applied Scenarios, Criminal Justice Mr. Hubbard
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/searchandseizure
Psychology Final Project, Psychology Mr. Hunsucker
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/hunsucker-psychology
Renaissance and Reformation, World History Mr. Sinco
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/sinco-renaissance
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