Module 4
Key Concepts
By Julie Nguyen
INDEX
Facilities
Looking for Peace and Quiet
The Art of Managing Volunteers in the School Library
Personnel
Funding/Budget
Free Money!
The Importance of a Library's Learning Commons
The social learning commons design has its advantages. It has an open, technology-rich, and collaborative atmosphere. Unfortunately, it also has its drawbacks. It can be distracting for tasks requiring concentration and uninviting to introverted students.
Library design should consider different types of work and personality types. However, libraries are limited by inadequate physical space and low funds.
What Can You Do Then?
- Focus on balance. Librarians should strive to find a middle ground between social and individual work environments.
- Implement effective strategies like masking sound, buffering sound, zoning activity, and controlling traffic flow.
- Create havens. Make an effort to create quiet study areas or rooms in the library.
Rationale: For my library, I would try out some of these strategies to create more quiet areas for my students. I want my learning commons to meet the needs of all my students.
Source: Palin, R. (2014). Looking for peace and quiet. Knowledge Quest, 42(4), 16-21.
The Importance of Volunteers in a School Library
Involving volunteers in the library's day-to-day functions establishes an ongoing dialog between the library and the community. Volunteers are a way of making a lot of the "invisible" work of the library visible.
Potential volunteers include students, parents, teachers and staff, and the larger community.
- Students can earn civic responsibility, and character education, and participate in a democratic society.
- Parents can have the opportunity to contribute to an area of the school that fits their values.
- Teachers and staff can feel a sense of shared ownership of the community space.
- The larger community can be stakeholders, school board members, local government officials, and business owners.
Rationale: I would try to have a diverse group of volunteers made up of more than just my students. This article has demonstrated how important it is to connect with the community.
Source: Bogel, G. (2013). The art of managing volunteers in the school library. School Library Monthly, 29(4), 26–28.
The Process:
Organize. Have a clearly defined mission statement and determine the library's priorities. What specific tasks are needed?Recruit. Focus on effective recruitment strategies. For example, students can be contacted by posting notices or working with their teachers or counselors. Train. Time needs to be set aside for training. This is the groundwork for cultivating rewards from volunteering. Sustain. Get to know your volunteers. Give them time and attention. Celebrate. Acknowledge your volunteers. For example, a volunteer profile each month on the school website.
- Get approval from your supervisor and administrator before you write a grant proposal.
- Start looking for grand funds in your community. It could look like writing a proposal to the neighborhood grocer.
- Reach out and collaborate with the neighborhood and community.
- Network. Stay connected with people. Use social media to join groups.
- Kids first. Keep in mind that funders want to help kids learn, achieve, stay in school, and graduate.
- Have a positive, can-do, energetic, and collaborative attitude.
- Be prepared. Have your resume ready, know what the library needs, what you would use the funds for, what are the prices of the items you plan on purchasing, why it would improve students' learning, etc.
How to Get Grant Money
Rationale: Time and funds are short, and the needs for books, programming, and technology are high. I would use this process to apply for grants to earn more funding for library programs and services.
Source: Anderson, C. (2011). Free money! Knowledge Quest, 40(2), 10-13.
References
Anderson, C. (2011). Free money! Knowledge Quest, 40(2), 10-13. https://libproxy.library.unt.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/free-money/docview/910321619/se-2 Bogel, G. (2013). The art of managing volunteers in the school library. School Library Monthly, 29(4), 26–28. Palin, R. (2014). Looking for peace and quiet. Knowledge Quest, 42(4), 16-21. https://libproxy.library.unt.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/looking-peace-quiet/docview/1508781978/se-2
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Module 4
Key Concepts
By Julie Nguyen
INDEX
Facilities
Looking for Peace and Quiet
The Art of Managing Volunteers in the School Library
Personnel
Funding/Budget
Free Money!
The Importance of a Library's Learning Commons
The social learning commons design has its advantages. It has an open, technology-rich, and collaborative atmosphere. Unfortunately, it also has its drawbacks. It can be distracting for tasks requiring concentration and uninviting to introverted students.
Library design should consider different types of work and personality types. However, libraries are limited by inadequate physical space and low funds.
What Can You Do Then?
Rationale: For my library, I would try out some of these strategies to create more quiet areas for my students. I want my learning commons to meet the needs of all my students.
Source: Palin, R. (2014). Looking for peace and quiet. Knowledge Quest, 42(4), 16-21.
The Importance of Volunteers in a School Library
Involving volunteers in the library's day-to-day functions establishes an ongoing dialog between the library and the community. Volunteers are a way of making a lot of the "invisible" work of the library visible.
Potential volunteers include students, parents, teachers and staff, and the larger community.
Rationale: I would try to have a diverse group of volunteers made up of more than just my students. This article has demonstrated how important it is to connect with the community.
Source: Bogel, G. (2013). The art of managing volunteers in the school library. School Library Monthly, 29(4), 26–28.
The Process:
Organize. Have a clearly defined mission statement and determine the library's priorities. What specific tasks are needed?Recruit. Focus on effective recruitment strategies. For example, students can be contacted by posting notices or working with their teachers or counselors. Train. Time needs to be set aside for training. This is the groundwork for cultivating rewards from volunteering. Sustain. Get to know your volunteers. Give them time and attention. Celebrate. Acknowledge your volunteers. For example, a volunteer profile each month on the school website.
How to Get Grant Money
Rationale: Time and funds are short, and the needs for books, programming, and technology are high. I would use this process to apply for grants to earn more funding for library programs and services.
Source: Anderson, C. (2011). Free money! Knowledge Quest, 40(2), 10-13.
References
Anderson, C. (2011). Free money! Knowledge Quest, 40(2), 10-13. https://libproxy.library.unt.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/free-money/docview/910321619/se-2 Bogel, G. (2013). The art of managing volunteers in the school library. School Library Monthly, 29(4), 26–28. Palin, R. (2014). Looking for peace and quiet. Knowledge Quest, 42(4), 16-21. https://libproxy.library.unt.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/looking-peace-quiet/docview/1508781978/se-2
Thank you!