Media Needs Assessment Report
Below are the results from the media survey.
The Best Characteristics of Our Library Are...
- Reading Promotion
- Being able to check out books when needed
- Big Library, lots of books
- Media Lessons
- Great Resources
- Collaboration
- New organization from last year
- Resources are mostly current
- Books I need are easy to locate
- Readily available resources
- Media Specialist willing to help with curriculum needs
How Can Our Media Center Be Improved?
- Acquire new, high interest books
- More popular books displayed
- More award winning books
- Media Specialist teach computer lab lessons
- Have more of a variety of books
- Have more copies of popular books
- Update books
- Increase Easy Nonfiction collection
- Buying more high interest, but low leveled books
- Show students how to use different resources in the media center
- More time to use media resources
The Media Specialist Helps Me By...
How can the media specialist better help you teach your curriculum?
- Animal Research
- Pull items for science units
- 4th Grade Coastal Studies trip
- Computer Navigation
- Equipment help and maintenance
- Research
- Finding available resources
- ELA & Science research
- Money Bus
Ways You Use the Media Center
Books/Materials You Requested
- Junie B. Jones
- Alex Haley
- Kevin Henkes
- Eric Carle Big Books
- Kindergarten class set of dictionaries
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Books
- Percy Jackson Series
- Science & S.S. Topic DVDs
- Audiobooks
**The Hunger Games and Twilight series were also requested. While they are both great series, they are geared toward middle and high school and cannot be purchased for an elementary library.
Your Reading Promotion Ideas
- School-Wide Readathon
- Students promote book of the week/month
- Implementing DEAR
- Reading club
- Book Clubs
- Reading Incentives
Technology Trainings You Suggested
- More training with all the programs that are used in the media center.
- Directions need to be written down for all.
- Smartboard training
- Website training
- New technology available for lower grades
- Tablets for classroom use
- Microsoft 365 (new email) training
- iPad training
- Using Google Forms