{"id":87,"date":"2019-04-10T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/wendydarby\/?p=87"},"modified":"2019-04-10T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:17:05","slug":"its-playoff-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/wendydarby\/2019\/04\/10\/its-playoff-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Playoff Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pre-game Show:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. I conducted surveys to find out what the perception of the library was amongst faculty and students.\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. As a good librarian, I read about the place of libraries in 21st century education and found\u00a0special comfort in John Palfrey’s, Bibliotech.<\/li>\n
  3. I talked with other librarians at all levels of education about what they felt the role of the library is in today’s educational institution.<\/li>\n
  4. I went to cohort.<\/li>\n
  5. Based on my action planning and brainstorming, I went back to my school and thought about how our library fit into this new model and what concrete changes needed to be made in order to translate my HMW into action with tangible results. I came up with three main objectives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The First Period:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Go to faculty and show off. <\/strong>Palfrey advocates for going to the teachers in order to gain an audience with the students. My own personal experience echoed this and so I made meetings \"\"<\/a>with the faculty and even got air time during our monthly meeting. During this time, I reintroduced them to our fiction collection and I showed them the power of our databases, what they can do and how they could be used in their classes. After picking their jaws up off the floor, they promptly brought their classes to the library. This has translated into a 64% increase in database usage over last year and the year isn’t over yet!<\/p>\n

    Second Period:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>More display space for fiction.<\/strong> This is something I have struggled with in my beautiful classic library with oak shelving lining all the walls. When they redesigned the space, they did not think about displays. I will be sure to advocate for this in the next redesign as I am very happy to report, IT WORKS! I wanted to refocus the library on reading for the sake of reading. Much credit here goes to my \"\"<\/a>assistant librarian Jenna Cameron, who has taken this concept and run with it, creating visually appealing, topical and often engaging displays for our books. Statistically speaking, going back 10 years in loan history, we have never had this many fiction books loaned out in a single year AND we are almost triple the loaned fiction over last year and it’s only April! (This cannot be only Jenna and I taking out books)<\/p>\n

    Third Period:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Redesign the library webpage.\u00a0<\/strong>This was a must. The webpage has always bothered me and\"\"<\/a> over the years I have made changes and adjustments to it but it has always struck me as very stagnant and boring. In some ways, I really couldn’t blame the students for wanting to use Google over our resource page. I give you Exhibit A…<\/p>\n

    So, I partnered with our IT department and set out to make some fundamental changes. First<\/strong>, was to divide it into the IB year groups (PYP K-6, MYP 7-10 and DP 11-12). Now, depending on what grade you are in when you sign in to our Tigernet, you will see resources and information that are applicable to you. Second<\/strong>, trim the fat. Take out resources that are not in regular use and target those that are going bring the students in thereby increasing their perceived value of the library as resource for credible information. Third<\/strong>, add in a library booking form for students to book time to talk with their librarian about the resources they require. Fourth<\/strong>, make it look pretty! I give you Exhibits B, and C.<\/p>\n

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    OT!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Aren’t they beautiful? With this step complete, I want to continue to develop the online presence of the library. I would like to create instructional videos for choosing appropriate databases, research aids, citation aids and research question development.<\/p>\n

    Phew! Time to start planning for next season \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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    Final F2F Slide Deck<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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