bringing in the masses: making your library essential
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Bringing in the Masses:
Making Your Library EssentialRachel Grover
LibrarianFairfax County Public Schools
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Advocacy: What It Is and Why It’s Important
• Speaking up for you, your programs, resources, and abilities
• Requires deliberate, consistent relationship building
• Kirkland (2012) warns if the school librarian cannot demonstrate the program’s worth, it is impossible to expect others to understand.
• We teach everyone (including staff)!
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What Drives It All• Focus Question: How do we
further our mission of patrons becoming effective users of ideas and information?
• An advocacy program/plan based on your students’ and staff’s needs
• PLAN: Craft messages around students and learning, NOT the school library itself.
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Building Awareness for Library Programs
• Back to School nights• Social media/Website• Morning announcements• Show off student work using your resources• Public library/Cross promotion• Parent volunteers• Contests – 12 Days, Bookmarks, Guess the
Book• What do YOU do?
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Promoting Yourself as an Instructional Partner• New teacher orientation• Ask for pacing guides @ beg. of
year• Using the physical space of the
library• Follow up with teachers you
work with• Be seen in other places of the
school besides the library!• Photos of collaborations
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Promoting Yourself as an Instructional Partner• Displays for current units• Calendar with big projects per
subject• After-school trainings• Visit department meetings for
subject-specific staff development & just being friendly.
• Highlight instruction & reading guidance, not just collections and computers
• What do YOU do?
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Being a Leader• “Library Minute” at staff meetings• Serve on school leadership teams• School & District Curriculum Committees• Be a mentor!• Conduct professional development at
the school and/or district level• Pilot technology projects• What do YOU do?
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Proving the Impact of Your Work
• Monthly newsletters shared with administration, staff, parents, & students
• Collect data! • Logins, purposes for students coming to the library,
no. of collaborations with each teacher or subject area• Pre- & Post- Advocacy data around year goals,
initiatives, or programs• Back up stats from your own library with district, state
& national stats• Student input: What do they like? Not like?
• Frequent fliers, reluctants, and average readers• Random classes survey vs. posting on your website
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Proving the Impact of Your Work
• Be thankful to “investors”!• Do a “Year in Review” for your staff –
and yourself!• Follow up with SOL data that you
collaborated on with teachers• Why is it worth it for others to
invest in what you do?• What do YOU do?
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Questions to Ask Yourself…
• Do you have an Advocacy Plan for your library? (and who knows about it?)
• What does your library do to support personal & academic student growth?
• How often does your school – and community – hear about the great things going on in your library?
• How could a student “Library Advisory Group” further your plan?
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Questions to Ask Yourself…
• Do you document the happenings in your library? How do you disseminate that documentation?
• Is your library welcoming 100% of the time? – Is it ready to be the inspiration for a
new program or teacher collaborative opportunity?
• Does your print (and online) collection currently reflect every subject area’s standards?
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If you don’t advocate for your programs, instructional abilities, and the impact of
your work…WHO WILL?
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Thank You!Rachel Grover [email protected] County Public Schools @rgrov1013