D-West Library Report

9th Grade Orientation: All freshmen received a two-step orientation through their Language Arts and History classes. They completed a really fun Goosechase scavenger hunt to learn "how we roll" in the library, and then participated in a tech session co-taught by Mrs. Nass and Mrs. Hunt,

Green Screen Use: Our green screen was used by our Spanish III classes to record group projects and by our transition classes for headshots.

Independent Reading Selection: We worked with four separate groups: 10th grade LA book pass, 9th grade LA general book pass, 9th grade hero cycle book pass, and our AP Language students on book selection. For each group, we pulled a selected group of books (by genre, level, and theme) for the students to explore.

1920's Magazine Project: We worked with the 11th grade history classes on this project. Our focus this year was on finding and utilizing peer-reviewed sources.

English 12 Bucket List: We worked with the English 12 classes on their bucket list projects, focusing on how to use Noodletools to create citations from web sources.

AP Research- Our AP Research class came in for their introductory session to our databases.

AP Seminar- Our AP Seminar class came in for a database scavenger hunt.

English 10 History and Nature of Prejudice- We began the History and Nature of Prejudice projects with our English 10 classes.

English 11 Breakout- We hosted an English 11 class for their Breakout EDU activity.

This year we are developing a Lunch and Learn program in our library. Our first Lunch and Learn was for students who are new to our West community. We were excited to offer this opportunity to new students go through an orientation to what resources are available for them and be able to give one on one support as they start their year off in a new school!

• Worked with a 9th grade advisory and their teacher on the creation of a graduation project for the students to complete in conjunction with a community project in Downingtown Borough.
• Met with a Spanish language teacher on how to best utilize our Spanish language tools and databases for her class's research needs.
  
• Met with an English 10 teacher to design instruction for an upcoming unit.
• Met with the new AP Research teacher to assess our existing resources and discuss areas where we could develop resources for her classes.
• Met with an English 11 teacher to design a new research project for our 11-02 classes centered around career/college and their future goals.
• Met with guidance counselors and our career center coordinator to plan a lunch and learn centered around college admissions.
• Met with our instructional coach to plan this month's lunch and learn opportunity.

• Participated in sessions on technology tools, on Google tools, and on the Adobe suite to improve instruction and offerings in the library.

• SAS Team meetings: Monday and Wednesdays, period 5
  
• PAC Team meetings
• Met with DASD: Future Ready Libraries committee to define the scope of the committee and begin strengthening and crafting vision statements.

Our Maker areas have been busy at the start of this school year! We began with Strawbees, which were integrated into our 9th grade orientation. Then, we transitioned to collaborative art. Students in the library have the opportunity to sit together and de-stress by participating in large, collaborative coloring pages. Meanwhile, our students built a four foot tall, functioning k'nex ferris wheel!

Library club has started strong this year.

• Senior Tulasi Nidamarthy is continuing a Reading Olympics team through Library Club. We had 10 students sign up to be initial members of this team and they are meeting monthly.
  
• Annabelle Liechty has taken the lead on our writer's club. They had their first meeting and are looking forward to a good year.
• Book club has chosen their first round book: To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (also a popular Netflix movie).

Aevidum is beginning its first year of accepting members and running campaigns. Our first campaign was to place signs in the lobby that say "Everyone has value." These signs have the name of every student in our school. Our next campaign is planned for red ribbon week in conjunction with another club in the building.

Parent Volunteer

• Pia Disanto, every Tuesday AM

Student Volunteers

• Annabelle Liechty
• Charlotte Decker
• Regina Roeder
• Amanda Drill

In the above graph, the bottom axis represents days in September. The right axis is the numbers of students signed in. Our average was 213 students a day.

• traditional book circulations: 701
• e-books: 587 views / 45 checkouts
• laptop circulations: 567
• charger circulations: 69

Total library circulations: 1382

September:

330 MLA projects created

94 APA projects created

28 Chicago projects created

West Libguides received 733 hits during the month of September.

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.

Find this library report and more on our blog: http://adventuresinlibrary.blogspot.com/

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