1. LARNED HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY
OCTOBER MONTHLY REPORT
GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST PAM FITZGERREL, LIBRARY ASSISTANT
Story Time @ Phinney
During their initial planning
session for the 2010-2011 school
year, the members of the Teen
Advisory Group (TAG Team)
decided the promotion and
encouragement of reading
needed to be add to their goals
for the year. One of the ways surprised to find “big kids” questions at the beginning,
they wanted to achieve this goal scattered around the room middle and end of the story
was by going to one of the waiting to share a story with to help students with their
elementary schools and reading them. The elementary comprehension and
to the students. students were placed in prediction skills. Some of
On October 28th, a total of 11 small groups of 3 to 4 and the stories enjoyed by
Teen Advisory Group (TAG Team) rotated between the TAG students throughout the day
members traveled to Phinney Team members. Students were Pumpkin Soup by
Elementary School to read Fall heard 2 to 3 stories during Helen Cooper, A Very Brave
and Halloween stories to the their library time. Along with Witch by Alison McGhee and
students during their library time. reading the stories, the TAG Let It Fall by Maryann
As the elementary students Team members also asked Cocca-Leffler. (cont. on pg.2)
entered the library, they were
Mission
The Larned High School Library will be an
inviting, user-friendly hub providing
opportunities for active, engaging and
challenging learning for students and staff
through various media resources,
programming and collaboration. The LHS
Library will provide a quality program that
will enable students to be lifelong learners
“It was better than I and enhance the curriculum and “It was interesting because the
technology standards of Larned High kids had a lot to say.” --Alex
thought.” --Veronica
School.

2. LHS LIBRARY
INTERNET Program Highlights
IDENTITY
Card Catalog: Allows
students and staff to search
the collection at school or
home, access eBooks, renew
& place holds on books--
http://98.172.116.51/simple/?
sessionid=1NYR545AQ36404
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LHS Library Blog:
Information relating to
books, technology, events,
news and more--http://
lhslib2007.edublogs.org/
• New laptop carts and computers arrived at the high school. The new
LHS Library Facebook
computers were available for checkout the last week of October. Watch the
Page: Updates on events,
programs, books and more--
LHS Library Blog for student comments on the new computers.
http://www.facebook.com/
• Mrs. Wilcox’s Spanish students obtained books related to the culture or
home.php?#!/pages/Larned-
written by Latino authors for their book project.
KS/Larned-High-School-LMC/
221632271653 • Ms. Lehman attended the Kansas Association of School Librarians Conference
in Junction City and came back excited about using more technology with the
LHS Library Website:
General information on
students at LHS. She is also looking forward to collaborating more with the
library policies & procedures, classroom teachers.
programs and Teen Advisory
• Work on the genre reclassification came to a stand still, but plans are being
Group--http://
made to resume in November. Book Bundles were also delayed, and will be
www.usd495.net/
150620171264587/site/
ready for check out in November.
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• Coming in November--Scholastic Book Fair, November 17-24 @ the LHS
LHS Library Delicious: Library - Community Day on Nov. 22nd 1-5pm
Collection of bookmarks
selected specifically for the
needs of staff & students at Story Time continued...
LHS--http:// Although the TAG Team members were split into a morning
www.delicious.com/lhslib2010 group and an afternoon group, all members expressed their
surprise at how exhausted they were after completing their
LHS Library Flickr:
Shared photos--http://
session with the elementary students. However, they also all
www.flickr.com/photos/
expressed an eagerness to "do it again" in the future.
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3. Data Snapshots
LHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, OCTOBER2010
Total Circulation 438
9th Grade Circulation 113
10th Grade Circulation 70
11th Grade Circulation 64
12th Grade Circulation 53
Other 138
Card Catalog Total Page Hits 2572
LHS Library Blog Unable to obtain due to program error
LHS Library Facebook Page Active Users unable to obtain--not accessible from work
Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 117
Interlibrary Loan--Loaned Total 8 requested but only 7 were filled
Interlibrary Loan--Borrowed Total 12 attempted but only 6 were filled
Filled Denied
Total Resource Requests Unable to obtain due to program error
It was a time of
“It was nice to lighten enrichment for both
up somebodies day.” -- the high school and
Ashlie elementary
students.” --Ethan
For more pictures see the video on the LHS Library Blog