Presented by: LaSheika PowellCourse: FRIT 7132Spring 2011Instructor: Dr. Chester

Morrow High School Media Center Facility Plan

Enrollment and Staffing

Grades: 9-12 Student population: 2,074 Teachers and staff: 106 One Administrator Five Assistant Administrators

Students Per Grade Level

Grade 9: 700 Grade 10: 491 Grade 11: 501Grade 12: 382

Student Demographics

White :101 Black: 1,596 American Indian: 1 Asian: 154 Hispanic: 162

Morrow High Media Center Personnel

One Media SpecialistOne Media Clerk

Morrow High Media Center Location

The media center is located across from the courtyard. The courtyard is the area where students go to eat and relax during lunch.

Media Center Location

This display case is located outside of the media center. Every month there is different information inside the display case pertaining to the school’s curriculum.

Morrow High Media Center Location

The media center is located on the second floor near many of the science classes. Unfortunately, it is a great distance from many of the CTAE (Career, Technical, and Agriculture Education) classes.

Circulation Desk

Upon entering the media center, the circulation desk is located on the left hand side.

Reading Area

This is the reading area. The reading area is on the immediate left upon entering the media center. This area is not utilized often due to the lack of seating space. The downsize is that this area is right next to the hallway which can be a little noisy at times.

Computer Area

The media center currently has fifteen computers for students to utilize. Some classrooms have at least one computer for students to utilize during class.

Computer Area

Unfortunately, some of them are non operable at times. Additional computers are located in the computer lab on the second floor. The computer lab has 30 computers for students to utilize. The downfall to this is many teachers utilize the computer lab for the entire school day to house students because they are too lazy too teach!

Seating/Work Area

There are 20 tables with 4-6 chairs at each. The media center can seat up to approximately 150-170 students.

Seating/Work Area

Our media specialist just completed the weeding process for this school year. Notice the boxes and empty shelves.

Fiction

Non fiction

Empty shelf space

Too many empty shelves. What do we do with all of this useful space?

Copy Area

Student Resources

Teacher Resources

Media Production/Storage Room

Survey Results/Positive ResultsTeachers

-The media center includes additional resources for teaching various units.-Large area to teach combined classes. -- Additional computers for teachers to utilize during planning period.

Students-Can check out many books at a time.-Can utilizes computers before school, after school and during lunch.-Large area to complete assignments.

Survey Results/Negative

Teachers-Not much of a selection of teacher resources to choose from.-Sometimes students are utilizing all computers which may cause a teacher to have to wait to use a computer.-- Teachers can not utilize the media center on certain days due to the requirement of fixed scheduling.

Students-There is not a great selection of books to check out.-There is no quiet reading area.-Chairs do not have cushion which cause us(students) not to remain in the media center for an extended period of time.

Existing Layout

Pink Area- Media Clerk work station

Orange Area- Circulation Desk

Green Area- New Books

Blue Area- Reading Area

Dark Brown Area- Nonfiction/Fiction Books

Burgundy Area- Teacher Resources

Light Brown Area- Chairs and Tables for students to read and complete class work.

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Media Center Improvements

Need more computers for students and teachers to utilize throughout the day.

Eliminate unused book shelves next to the copy machine and replace with at least 15 computers.

15 computers at $601.00

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Media Center Improvements

Cubicles and earphones should be purchased for students to be able to work without being disturbed by others.

Cubicles-

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Earphones- $50.00 each

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Media Center Improvements

Cushions need to be placed in seats so students will be comfortable while in the media center.

110 cushions for $2,300.00

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Media Center Improvements

Purchase more teacher resources, other than books, for the units students are studying throughout the year.

More visual aids should be purchased to assist with teaching units.

Media Center Improvements

Eliminate loveseat and replace with a sectional to hold additional students.

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New Layout

Burgundy Area- teacher resources

Extra book shelves were eliminated and replaced with additional computers.

Tan Area- Cubicle area: can seat 4 students per section (can hold 20 students).

Light Green- New selection of books for students to utliize.

Light Brown Area- Tables and chairs for students to complete assignments. Can hold 80 students.

Light Brown shelves- Fiction books

Dark Brown shelves- Nonfiction books

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Media Center Policy

Accessibility of the media center The Library Media Center (LMC) should always be open

and accessible. The Georgia Department of Education policy 160-4-4-.01 clearly states that the LMC is flexibly scheduled throughout each instructional day.

Morrow High School Media Center Hours of Operation: 7:30AM-3:15PM

I would extend the hours to 5:00PM for those students who are able to work late on assignments in the media center.

The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) policy concerning Flexible Scheduling is taken very seriously and assigning classes to the Media Center is a violation of GaDOE policy. Every Library Media Specialist (LMS) is also required to have an active school level Library Media/Technology Committee.

Light Blue- Changes that I would make to the current policy.

Media Center Policy Collaboration and flexible scheduling are needed for a quality and

effective K-12 media center instructional program. One cannot exist without the other. The library media program shall be a collaborative effort between the classroom teacher and the library media specialist in order to help our students achieve.

Collaboration between the media specialist and classroom teacher is not required at Morrow High School.

Collaboration between both the media specialist and teacher should be required.

It is essential that flexible scheduling work in partnership with collaboration. Administrators, classroom teachers, and media specialists should realize that flexible scheduling is much more difficult and time consuming than a fixed schedule. Flexible scheduling is not having a sign up sheet available and allowing teachers to sign up for the media center. The necessary planning for successful instruction with the classroom teacher and co-teaching the students are time consuming.

Again, the Library Media Center should always be open and accessible. This is a GaDOE policy and if classes are assigned to the media center it is not possible to be open to all students, staff, and faculty.

Fixed scheduling is required at Morrow High School. I would recommend that flexible scheduling is required for the

reasons mentioned above.

Media Center Policy

Evaluation of Collection/Funding Every school is required to have one full time

media specialist as well as one full time media clerk.

Morrow High has one full time media specialist and one full time media clerk.

Each school should have at least 2 media specialists or clerks to assist with the workload required by media specialists.

The media center’s collection is reviewed annually. Resources that are not utilized are eliminated. Weeding also takes place annually.

The collection must align with the GPS standards as well as the curriculum that is being taught in classrooms.

Media Center Policy

Evaluation of Collection/Funding continued

Due to budget cuts received this school term, the superintendent only awarded $5,000 to each media center in Clayton County Public Schools.

Evidently, this is not enough funds to replace resources in the media center.

The annual budget received by each media center in the Clayton County School system should be a minimal of $10,000.

Media Center Policy

Internet Use Each student is required to have a

completed Internet Agreement Form on file before they are allowed to access the computers in the media center.

Media Center Policy

Circulation Policies 9th-12th grade- Students are allowed to

check out as many books as they like with the exception of reference material such as encyclopedias and dictionaries. They are required to utilize reference material in the media center.

Media Center Policy

Literacy Checklist Requirements. Before students graduate from Morrow High School, they are required to know how to complete each task on the checklist listed below:

- Log on to Internet to locate sources of information.

- Evaluate web sites for accuracy of information (reliability, credibility, accuracy).

- Use GALILEO as a source of information for research projects and personal information.

- Know how to create citations- Understand the ethics of using resources

including copyright restrictions and the concept of plagiarism.

Media Center Policy

Checklist continued- Use OPACS to locate resources in a library

media center.- Understand and use the Dewey classification

system.- Use specialized reference works and databases.

The checklist is listed as a requirement for students before graduation but, our students do not know how to do many of the tasks on this checklist. I would recommend that the media specialist with the collaboration of the teacher ensure that the tasks mentioned in the Library Checklist are accomplished by each student before graduation.