SOS for New LMS

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SOS for New LMS

• Stony Evans, Hot Springs High
• First Year LMS
• 14 Year Educator
• Rachel Shankles, Lakeside High
• 20 year LMS
• 39 Year Educator

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Rachels Do list for New LMS

• Take one or two professional journals and read
  them and tear out pages
• Join Professional Organizations like AAIM, AASL,
  ArkLibAssoc and attend as many conferences as
  they will let you including HSTI in June
• Visit other libraries
• Post to the AAIM list when you need help
• Find some good wikis and websites to use

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Stonys To Do List

• Find some Patience Getting Started seems
  daunting but remember to set long term goals and
  be patient you can not slay the library dragon
  in one year
• Find out who holds the purse strings in your
  school - Money and Purse-strings go together
• Engage the staff - with email announcements, let
  them have input, provide some inservice, and
  allow them to evaluate the LMC at end of year
• Engage students - Open those doors and show them
  the New Books New Look, do programming, have
  contests and events
• Use student workers for help and input

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More Things to Do

• Advertise what you do in the paper
• Make a short newsletter of your monthly
  activities for staff and send it to the powers
  that be in the central office
• Write grants or raise money to decorate and have
  contests
• The first thing you need is a digital camera
  keep photos of all your activities and bulletin
  boards and displays all year to put into a
  PhotoStory to use in your evaluation conference
• Find out about free programming ideas
• Check out Rachels wiki just for librarians with
  all sorts of event, contest, decorating, and
  framework ideasand PPts to teach students and
  faculty HTTP//AAIMLIBRARYWIKI.wikispaces.com

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Dont

• Overlook how much you will depend on the janitor
• Overlook using parents as volunteers
• Forget WalMart as a donor write one or two
  donation letters per year for like 60 each
• Forget to invite the Superintendent to your
  events
• Never do duty outside the library or close it
  while you go to duty against the law
• Go without lunch b/c you try to keep library
  open
• eat early or late or have a rotating duty
  person for library
• Never stress out over overdues since you really
  do want the books to circulate but get the
  asst. principal to back up your pleas

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Things Stony has learned

• Mentors are wonderful
• Find a few by visiting other local libraries
• See if you can form an area library consortium of
  some kind that will meet and exchange ideas
• Bounce your ideas off of someone else and get
  input from other school librarians on how to
  manage what you have come up with
• Check out our WeDewey Wiki at
• Http//wedewey.wikispaces.com/

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Things that worked well

• Music in the library during Black History Month
  (March is Music in the Schools Month also)
• Inviting the Superintendent to read aloud during
  Black History Month and then she bought new
  flooring after seeing the condition of the carpet
• Offering to teach Internet research techniques to
  classes (credibility collaboration)
• Newspaper article/ picture submissions

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The best thing I tried

• Multimedia presentations to the entire school
  during lunch (new books, top ten books, and book-
  movie trailers)
• Asking for input from students and teachers

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Rachels best advice to you

• Get active in AAIM and meet librarians you can
  email and call to ask questions
• Email me anytime and I will point you in the
  right direction

• Stonys best advice to you
• Be patient and realize it cannot happen all in
  one year. Create a 3-5 year plan. Create a
  support network of those you can call on for
  advice/ AAIM listserv
• Email me anytime and I will share what I know
  with you ( or point you to those that do)

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Contact Info

• Rachel Shankles
• Lakeside High School, 2871 Malvern Ave., Hot
  Springs, AR 71901 PH 501-262-1530
• Email
• Rachel_Shankles_at_LS1.dsc.k12.ar.us or
• Shankles_at_cablelynx.com
• Stony Evans
• Hot Springs High School, 701 Emory St., Hot
  Springs, AR 71913 PH 501-624-5286
• Email
• evanss_at_hssd.net or
• evanss_at_catc.net