Library Liaison



Library Liaison 2006-2007Council Elementary PTA ElementaryPlan of workLibraryScope of Chairmanship:Library Liaison will find parents, grandparents and community volunteers willing to assist the library staff with maintaining the LMC, as needed.Library Liaison will provide volunteers to assist with fundraising events such as Fall and Spring Book Fairs.Library Liaison will report to the executive board with updated library needs and services as well as matters relating to the budget.Library Liaison will promote reading with campus/district approved reading programs with support programs and materials such as: AR store, SHARE Reading, reading program activities, after-school reading/movie night’s club, themed “dress as your favorite book character” days.Goals of Chairmanship:Goal One: To build a team of active library volunteers to keep books shelved and processing up to date, as well as help the library staff work both book fairs and to help check books out for the children during library time.Strategy: Obtain a list of volunteers from VIPS chairperson’s survey, have pins and other incentives to offer the volunteers for their work in the library.Telephone to schedule volunteer hours to suit volunteer’s schedule as well as specific needs of the LMC.Resources: VIPS coordinator survey results, LMC staff and school volunteers.Evaluation Procedures: Meet with library staff at the end of the semester to determine with days more help is needed.**************************************************************************************Goal Two: Encourage CE students to participate in the year’s approved reading programs by sponsoring a contest with prizes for the projects related to the current CE reading book list.Strategy: Send out announcement to the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students describing the current CE approved reading program list, the deadlines and descriptions of the contest and book project ideas.Schedule CE teachers and staff to judge the projects.Oversee the collection, display and judging of projects.Purchase the first, second and third prize awards and ribbons.Purchase prize incentives for 5 book and 10 book readers.Purchase one set of hardback of the approved books for the current reading program and two sets of the paperback fiction books. When spaces come available, purchase corresponding AR tests. Purchase any books available in Spanish, one hardback and two fictions.Resources: Teachers and LMC staff, current reading program supplies order forms.Form for judges to use to evaluate projects, fairly.Evaluation: To be completed at the end of the term.Budget $500Goal Three: Provide Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade with a parent supported reading program. This program is known as “SHARE”. The librarian will provide flyers for the program. Each child that reads 10 books with their family, will receive a small incentive. These incentives would be in the form of plastic dog tags, stickers, pencils or some other small LMC approved trinket.Resources: Parents, LMC staff, CEPTA/LMC approved catalogs (such as, but not limited to the following: OTC, Balloon and Novelty, Rebecca’s)Evaluation: To be completed at the end of term.Goal Completion: March 2006 and see how many students participate.Budget $200Goal Four: Support the Accelerated Reader program in coordination with the LMC staff as we have done in years past.Strategy:Purchase and prepare prizes for the “A.R. Store”. Use prize levels 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200 points for selecting prizes, as well as total points for students under 10 point levels.Have volunteers available to help work the store when clasCE attend, once a semester.Resources: LMC staff, PTA volunteers, catalogs and donations.Evaluation: To be completed at the end of the term/Goal Completion: 1st store: December 2005 2nd store: May 2006Budget $1500**************************************************************************************Goal Five: To build a student wish list of subjects and titles of books to purchase those as requested or needed to do classroom projects.Resources: Council Elementary PTA students and bookstores.Goal Completion: OngoingEvaluation: At the end of the year, reviewing the student wish list to see that all requests have been metBudget $400Goal Six: To maintain a collection of Spanish language books in the library. Review current, popular and classic titles for Spanish titles for the ESL needs of the school. Ask the Librarian, teachers and students for the requests. Spanish books are more expensive to buy, so there are fewer donations in this area. Purchase AR tests to go along with the books.Resources: Katy Budget Books, Bookstores and book catalogs.Goal Completion: OngoingEvaluation: At the end of the year, get with the bi-lingual team leaders and the Librarian to see that they adequate titles are available to read.Budget $500Goal Seven: Class gifts to the library to enlarge the book collection. Each class will be given a book for the class to give the library. Every student in that class will sign the book. Books could also be given from the cafeteria, custodians, front office, nurse, etc.. AR tests to be purchased for all the books. This would add about 70 books to the library, every year. There are 60+clasCE and 10 books from various staff.Resources: Teachers for book ideas, bookstores, book catalogs. Source out the most inexpensive source for each title. Renaissance Learning for AR tests.Goal Completion: May 2006Evaluation: to be completed at the end of the school year.Budget 2000Goal Eight: To keep AR test current. To purchase AR tests for newly published books, popular fiction (kid’s pulp fiction), and books donated to the library. At the end of the 2005 we had run out of “Teacher Made Quiz: slots, and there is a need to free up some “slots” with titles that are available for purchase.Tests are $2.65 each with a minium of 20. To purchase 20 every six weeks (or as librarian needs)Resources: Students, teachers and the Librarian.Evaluation: To be completed at the end of the term/Goal Completion: On going.Budget $265Goal Nine: Purchase books for the library for visiting authors to sign.Strategy: Resources: Check with Librarian for book titles and Katy Budget Books for purchase.Evaluation: To be completed after the author’s visits are arranged.Goal Completion: TBA by the Librarian as author’s visits are arranged.Budget $300Goal Ten: To increase the ratio of books curriculum related to student. These currently are not enough in several different areas for each student to check out what they need.Strategy: Determine where our shortages are in relation to curriculum.Determine which and how many books to order, then order. The Librarian has said that 4 to 5 books per grade level would be a good addition.Resources: Grade level team leaders, Librarian and book vendors.Evaluation: To be completed at the end of term.Goal Completion: May 2006Budget $750Goal Eleven: To purchase classroom sets of curriculum supporting magazine subscriptions.Budget $200Added as of 5/1/2007Goal Twelve: To purchase books in honor of board members, teachers of the year, lifetime members, and like type recipients. Budget $250Total Budget Requisition: $6865.00 ................
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