Collaboration and Leadership Requirement

When I am hired as a school media specialist there are many chunks of data and "evidence" that I'll start collecting. Below is a list of questions I will want the answer to assess the library programs, the collection and to advocate my position and the library itself.

• What parts of the collection are being read and what parts aren't?
• Is my collection current enough?
• What is the physical condition of the condition?
• Is my budget being effectively used?
• How does the faculty use the library
• How do the students use the library?
• How well does the collection address the needs of the curriculum?
• What does the community I serve look like and need?
• How well am I teaching information literacy skills?
• How well is the library motivating students to read?
• How well is the library teaching technology skills?

In order to answer those questions, here are some ways I can gather information.

• Collect circulation records
• Inventory the collection.
• Conduct a collection mapping project.
• Survey the students and faculty for their uses of the library.
• Test the students for their reading level at the beginning of the year and end of each year.
• Collect standardized test score records to see how they change from year to year.
• Keep records on how I collaborate with other faculty and evaluations that follow.
• Look at the Indiana Department of Education's website for my school's demographic statistics.
• Keep records on how money is spent and where it comes from, year to year.
• Keep learning logs for students in how they are learning information literacy and technology literacy skills.

I chose to do a collection mapping project. I used the collection at my old elementary school library, with permission of the resident school media specialist.

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Technology Requirement

Professional Report

Excel Spreadsheet & Data Collection Materials

I adapted my excel spreadsheet form from the School District of Philadelphia's Documents for Library Collection Mapping site. The actual form I adapted from is http://www.libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/pdf/TotalCollectionWorkForm.pdf. In order to fill out this spreadsheet, I used some enrollment information found at the Indiana Department of Education's page on Acton Elementary School.

The Excel Spreadsheet - the first page is raw data. The other two pages are for the data collection portion.
Also included in the spreadsheet I made are 2 other sheets. One is a collection of pie charts, and the other is a collection of bar graphs, analyzing the raw data.

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