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=Media Program Report=

 Media Center Mission Statement:

The media center will be a nurturing environment that welcomes students, parents, and faculty. All who enter will acquire new knowledge gained from the joy of reading. Learning is the key to success. By building confident readers, the media center will be the heart of the learning process. Media Center Goals:

1. To provide lessons to improve student's information literacy knowledge 2. To guide students to becoming life long learners 3. To assist teachers with curriculum for their classes

Media Center Objectives:

1. To increase our collection numbers 2. To add items that can be used in guided reading

Programs
 The Sunset Park Elementary Media Center provides the following programs for our students:
 * Sunshine State Young Readers Award book voting - Students in grades 3, 4 and 5 read the SSYRA books. Students that read 3 will vote in March. Students that read 10 or more will receive a book from our book fair. Students that read all 15 will have lunch with Mrs. Wood.
 * Accelerated Reader program - Each student receives 3 quarterly goals set by their teacher and based on the student's ablility level. Each student must keep an average of 80% or higher on their AR tests. They also must reach 100% or higher of their points level goal and be at or above their book level goal at the end of the nine weeks. Students that reach all 3 goals will receive a free book and a certificate at the end of the nine weeks. Students that meet their goal all year will have lunch with the principal.
 * Curriculum based "Lessons of the Month" for grades 2 through 5 - The media specialist provides the lesson and teachers sign up for the lesson if they wish. Some of the topics are: dictionary skills, non fiction text features, researching skills, and parts of the library.
 * Lessons and collaboration with teachers - The media specialist and the teacher work together on a lesson or unit based on teacher request.
 * Story time - Kindergarden and first graders visit the library for story time. Books are selected to teach students parts of the book, discuss holidays or times of the year, and to encourage the love of reading.
 * Virtual Book Club - Teachers and students are invited to participate in our Sunset Park Virtual book club. The media specialist and teachers pick 3 SSYRA books they would like to include. A pacing schedule is set for the teachers to follow. Students are given 3 questions per reading section to respond to. Students can respond to one or all of the questions. Students and teachers may add comments to the responses. The entire book club is hosted on wikispaces.com and is a private wiki for safety.

Scheduling
The media center is on a combination of fixed and flexible scheduling. Teachers can sign up for a weekly time to bring their entire class to check out books. However, they can also send groups during open times.

The media center is staffed with a full time media specialist. We depend on volunteers to assist the media specialist. The media center does have to close during lunch and lessons if there are no volunteers.

Lessons are scheduled in the morning and some afternoon times. If we have volunteers, the media center will stay open during these times. If volunteers are not available, the media center is closed to small groups. Teachers are emailed with the lesson of the month and the available times.

Story time is on a fixed schedule. Kindergarten and first grade classes visit every other week to hear and discuss the story. Story time is followed by check out time for the students.

Media Center Budget
2008-2009

Funding for the media center comes from the state, our two book fairs, and PTA funds.

110 budget - 5,672 Fall book fair - 2,821 Lost books - 781

Internal from last year - 6,994 110 from last year - 3,000

Total - 19,268

This total does not include our spring book fair earnings.

We also received $4000 from PTA to purchase the books for the AR prizes.

Purchases that have been made this year are:
 * Subscription ot the Junior Library Guild
 * 2nd scanner for check out
 * Student and teacher requests from Follett - approximately 500 new books
 * New non fiction books from Rosen
 * New lower level chapter books from Rainbow
 * Student subscriptions to Reinassance Place
 * Decoration for the media center
 * Book processing materials

Interlibrary loans
Sunset Park is a member of Sunlink. We also conduct resource sharing through our in county email. The media specialist contacts the schools with the resources needed via email and the requested items are sent through our courier.

Technology
The media center is equipt with a computer lab. Unfortunately, this is used for one of our special areas and is not available for use. The only time classes can use the lab is during the teacher's lunch.

The media center does use an online OPAC. The students and teachers have been taught how to use this and it is available via the internet.

The media center does have a page on our website. This is used to communicate to the community and list events and programs of the media center.

In order to teach a lesson to multiple classrooms, I have used our TV studio to record a lesson using PowerPoint and a voice over to conduct the lesson. The lesson is played on our closed circuit TV channel.

Our studio is also used each day for the WSUN news broadcast. Students run the entire show, from script to producing the show.

The Sunset Park Virtual Book club is also run over the internet Students and teachers post responses to questions on the wiki that is set up for the book club.

Policies and Procedures
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