D-West Library Report

History 11- American Icon Paper- We rolled out an 11th grade research paper in the history department this year. This paper supports the library science curriculum and dovetails with the teaching in the English 11 paper. One of our goals is to enable better transfer of skills from our language arts courses to our other areas of study.

English 12 Impact Paper- This is the second year of the roll out of the new Impact paper for English 12. This paper focuses on the impact of art on a social movement.

Africa and Middle East Annotated Bibliography: After looking at the information science skills introduced and expected throughout a student's tenure at West and across the curriculum, we decided to really focus on the annotated bibliography as an introductory skill in 9th grade research in the History curriculum.

College English- Database Scavenger Hunt: As the College English course heads into the second half of their year, the students received a refresher on what resources are available to them through our libraries and the useful components of each.

English 12 Contemporary Novel Research Assignment

• Met with 9 grade English teachers to re-think the persuasive speech research assignment.

• SAS Team meetings: Monday and Wednesdays, period 6
  
• PAC Team meetings
• West Cultural Equity Committee
• Future Ready Libraries Committee meetings

• The Maker Table in January was focused on mental health and mindfulness through coloring.

90 West students and 10 faculty chaperone traveled to Pittsburgh to participate in the EduHam (Hamilton Education) program sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. After spending a month in after school curriculum, learning about the Revolutionary period of American History and our Founding Fathers, the students each created a unique performance piece that was based off of primary source material and performed in front of a panel of teachers. Three of our students, Annabelle Liechty, Kate Trimble, and TJ Wickersham, were then selected to perform to a full audience at the Benedum Center for Performing Arts in Pittsburgh. They had written, composed, and performed their own interpretation of events from Abigail Adams’s perspective. After student performances, our students participated in a Q&A with the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton and were able to watch a matinee performance of Hamilton. This once in a lifetime experience was one that they will surely not forget!

• In January, Library Club participated in A Day Without Hate by decorating the hallway outside of the library for West students.
• Reading Olympics is still moving towards their reading goals for the competition. This month they began to organize for the competition.

• Aevidum executive council meets every other Wednesday morning in the library.
• The general Aevidum club meets once a month in the library.
• Aevidum and YPC held a joint meeting after school today to discuss mental health and needs at West. We developed a list of suggestions that will be taken forward to other committees.
• Aevidum will also be traveling to East to participate in a joint community building and brainstorming session with the Aevidum clubs at East and Stem.

Parent Volunteer

• Pia Disanto, every Tuesday AM

Student Volunteers

• Regina Roeder
• Amanda Drill
• Dayonte

In the above graph, the bottom axis represents days in January. The right axis is numbers of students signed in. Our average was 358 students a day. The December average was 365 students a day. This average is relatively low due to the heavy amount of testing in December and January.

• traditional book circulations: 436 (December = 187, November = 383)
• e-book and audiobook: 645 (December = 813, November = 661)
• laptop circulations: 323 (December = 346, November =510)
• charger circulations: 84 (December =30, November = 50)

Total library circulations: 1488 (December = 1376, November = 1604)

January

396 MLA projects created (December = 177, November = 364)

151 APA projects created (December = 54, November = 50)

16 Chicago projects created (December = 142, November = 20)

The mission of the library program in the Downingtown Area School District is to provide a dynamic learning environment that instills essential 21st century literacy skills through direct and collaborative instruction and the use of a wide variety of print and digital resources. Our goal is to ensure that students have the opportunity to become inquiring and engaged global citizens who are empowered to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.

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