Student Library Workers

PLYMOUTH REGIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY
@ the prhs library
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Student Library Workers
DATES:
Feb. 11th
Sold
March 19th
Before I Die
April 9th
Blue Bloods
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THIS ISSUE:
Featured
Non-Fiction
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Statistics
Sites
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Technology
Integration
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Digital
Portfolios
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Library
Statistics
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Over the past few years,
the PRHS Library has seen a steady
increase in attendance and circulation numbers. In order to maintain
the high quality of service on
which we pride ourselves, the
library leans
heavily on an
unheralded
and unsung
staff: the
student
workers.
These dedicated and
hard working
students give
up their
study hall in order to work at the
library with duties including checking in and out materials, helping
fellow students, and doing various
projects assigned by the professional library staff.
When there is a lull in
the action, students are encouraged to do any homework they
may have or study for upcoming
quizzes and tests.
Working in the library
gives students valuable work
experience and a way to earn
some school credit. In addition,
student workers also learn
how to best
utilize the
library, find
materials on
their own,
and evaluate
research
sources.
These are
skills that will
stay with students in their posthigh school life.
Another beneficial
aspect of working at the library is
that student workers meet and
interact with the entire student
body. Many friendships have
been made between a student
worker and a student through
interaction at the circulation desk.
Work experience, research skills and social development are all benefits of working at
the library which will, in turn, create the well-rounded individuals
that PRHS strives to produce.
What Are You Going to Do With Your Life?
Each year US News and
World Reports puts together a
list of the 30 careers that
offer strong job outlooks and
offer high career satisfaction.
Guess what career just came
up to the top of the list in the
January 2009 issue of the US
News and World Report?
Librarian!
There is an ocean of information out there– and the
world is going to need a lot
of librarians to help people
navigate through it.
Schools and public libraries
are not the only employers,
either. You may be surprised
to see that many hospitals,
law firms, government agen-
cies, corporations, and even
prisons have librarians.
In order to become a librarian, you need to go to college,
get a Bachelor’s degree and
then a Master’s degree in Library Science.
Librarianship is not just for
bookworms anymore (although
being one doesn’t hurt!)
Check out the full list at : http://www.usnews.com/sections/business/best-careers/index.html
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Book Club Titles for Winter & Spring
Featured
Non-Fiction
Downham, Jenny
Before I Die
A “bucket list” for teens
March 19th
Barack Obama
The Audacity of
Hope
In Audacity of Hope:
Thoughts on Reclaiming
the American Dream,
President Barack
Obama addresses
twenty-first century
politics in the United
States, commenting on
economic insecurities,
race, religion, terrorism,
threat of a pandemic,
and other issues relating
to his 2008 campaign.
We also have Dreams
of My Father: A Story of
Race and Inheritance by
Barack Obama and The
American Journey of
Barack Obama by the
editors of Life magazine.
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THE
McCormick, Patricia
De La Cruz, Susan
Sold
Blue Bloods
Living a nightmare in India
Feb. 11th
Rich vampires in the city
April 9th
Buzz-Worthy Statistics
The authors of the
Future Buzz blog
(www.thefuturebuzz.com)
have come up with a list of
“49 Amazing Social Media
Stats.”
Here are some of the
more interesting statistics:
• 1,000,000,000,000
(one trillion) - approximate number of unique
URLs in Google’s
Search index
• 2,695,205 - the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
• 70,000,000 - number
of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
• 133,000,000 - number
of blogs indexed by
Technorati since 2002
PRHS
LIBRARY
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1,111,991,000 - number of Tweets on
Twitter to date
150,000,000 - number of active Facebook users
Some of our favorite
statistic gathering websites
are:
FedStats:
Statistics and information
produced by more than
100 US Federal Government agencies
www.fedstats.gov
We are always looking at interesting statistics and especially enjoy
sharing our library statistics (see page 4 of this
U.S. Census Bureau:
Statistics on people, businewsletter).
ness, industry, and geography
http://www.census.gov/
National Center for
Educational Statistics:
Education statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
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Technology Integration in the Classroom
Over the course of the last year, PRHS
library added new media technology for
use by both teachers and students.
This past month, Ms. Maura Dougherty
took advantage of our new digital voice
recorders. As a
way of teaching
students to
integrate technology into
their class
work, each
student in her
English-10
classes used the recorders to interview a
family member. Because digital voice re-
corders are USB compatible, the students
were able to simply plug their recorded interviews into a computer and use them as the
soundtrack for a video-photo montage.
In a show of true collaboration across the
curriculum, Mrs. Lena MacLean, our resident
technology integrator, volunteered to go into
Ms. Dougherty’s classroom and assist students
in the development of these video projects
(scanning photos, Windows MovieMaker instruction etc.). She also helped students program their finished product into their Digital
Portfolios, moving students closer to meeting
the new school board mandate of creating an
electronic collection of their best work.
Digital Portfolios @ PRHS
Students and teachers are beginning to realize the full potential of
TaskStream, the Digital Portfolio program—a program that allows students
to organize their best work and present it as a web-based resume. During
the past quarter, seventeen requests
and reservations were submitted to the
library by PRHS staff to work with students and support the portfolio process.
This month for example, Mrs. MacLean and Mrs. Sanborn worked together to help Digital Photography stu-
Do you have a digital portfolio? If not, stop by the Library!
Maura Dougherty and Lena MacLean
“Empowering students
for the 21st century
includes helping them
acquire new technological skills.”
— Maura Dougherty
dents complete their final projects.
There were several students that organized the project into a digital portfolio presentation and are planning to use
it for their college applications.
Senior Molly McCahan used her
digital portfolio project to send pictures of her artwork to Yale University. Junior Jo Currier and Sophomore
Stacey Baker also compiled pictures of
their artwork as part of the class and
with Mrs. MacLean’s help, downloaded
it to Taskstream (the school-wide digital portfolio program). They plan to
submit the Taskstream Digital Portfolios in their college applications next
year.
Mr. Mausolf’s History classes, Mr.
Sanborn’ s CSI classes, and many others
are utilizing the assistance with Digital
Portfolio offered by PRHS library this
year.
The library encourages all PRHS
staff and students to continue to use
the library as a resource for guidance
and support regarding their Digital
Portfolio projects.
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“The purpose of the Plymouth Regional
High School Library is to ensure that
students and staff are effective users of
ideas and information.”
Plymouth Regional
High School Library
Librarian Quotes:
Pam Harland, Library Media Specialist
Casey Brough, Assistant Librarian
In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians
provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim.
— Linton Weeks (editor, Washington Post)
Bob Schrier, Library Assistant
Plymouth Regional High School Library
86 Old Ward Bridge Rd.
I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
— Edward Gorey (author & illustrator)
Plymouth NH 03264
Phone: 603.536.1444 x2001
Fax: 603.536.9086
E-mail: [email protected]
Check out our PRHS Library webpage:
http://prhslibrary.pbwiki.com/
Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas,
and librarians are the arms dealers selling weapons to both
sides.
— James Quinn (author & financial guru)
PRHS Library By the Numbers
S
tatistics are a great way to
see how the library is growing
and changing. With our powerful
databases we can gather and report on how the library is working in a variety of ways.
Top 10 Titles checked out this
month:
Total number of items in our
collection: 16,408
Student with the most
checkouts this quarter:
Jared Ange Roland
with 85 checkouts
Books per student: 20.5
Total Checkouts this quarter:
2,583
Books:
2,091
DVDs, Jump Drives, Cameras,
and other media:
492
Number of library student
workers from 1st semester:
11
1. Before I Die
2. Breaking Dawn
3. City of Bones
4. Eclipse
5. Just Listen
6. Sold
7. Burned
8. Fullmetal Alchemist 1
9. Fullmetal Alchemist 2
10. New Moon