Board Report

Library Board Report—DRAFT 05/07/2008

Staffing

2 FTE Librarians and 2 FTE library assistants—1 year-round, 1 school year (currently only 1)

Program Description

Mission: We believe the skills to effectively locate, ethically use, and critically evaluate information are as important as factual knowledge. We affirm the value of literature for academic success and an informed, empowered citizenry.

We strive to create an information-literate and reading-literate population among CVUHS students through instructional collaboration with faculty and staff, thoughtful selection of needed resources, and access to them.

Our vision is to collaborate in instructional design, delivery, and assessment so that information literacy is integral to CVU curricula and Expectations for Student Learning. We want the CVU Library to be:

a setting where students develop skills they will need as adults to locate, analyze, evaluate, interpret, and communicate information and ideas in an information-rich world. Students are encouraged to realize their potential as informed citizens who think critically and solve problems, to observe rights and responsibilities relating to the generation and flow of information and ideas, and to appreciate the value of literature in an educated society.
“AASL Position Statement on the Role of the School Library Media Program.” American Library Association. 2004. http://www.ala.org/aasl/positions/ps_roleschool.html (Accessed 20 Sep, 2004)

The Library serves the four following functions:

I. Access

  • Collection for leisure reading & curricular support in a variety of media
  • Circulation of school materials: English required reading; calculators; reserve textbooks
  • Electronic resources to support academic work available online

II. Services

  • Student services—photocopying, reserves, supplies
  • Reference services—locating materials/researching questions for faculty/staff/students
  • Custom resource gathering/circulation for specific assignments
  • Creation of custom catalog categories
  • Custom web pages of electronic resources for assignments

III. Instruction (114 class sessions in 2007-08; 128 class sessions in 2006-07)

  • Booktalks (themed for teacher request or open for leisure reading)
  • Assignment-specific research
  • Database instruction
  • Plagiarism & copyright
  • Citation and bibliographies
  • Information literacy (to learn more, click here)
  • Website/resource evaluation

IV. Space

  • Physical space for students during free blocks, cancelled classes, scheduling changes, time before sports, breaks from class
  • Physical space for school & community classes, meetings

Student Participation

  • Traffic (1,958 daily average)Classes (114 class sessions in 2007-08; 128 class sessions in 2006-07)
  • Circulation—Multiple Copies & regular (22,465 in 2008; 26,311 in 2007)
  • Special Events: “Lovin’ the Library” AP English class events; annual Graduation Challenge Tangible Product Fair; “Breaking the Silence” GSTA-sponsored event
  • Book club—monthly discussions, trip to Lake Champlain Chocolates & afternoon movie
  • Database usage (12,112 sessions in 2005-06; 59,376 in 2006-07; 38,823 in 2007-08)
  • Reference help—no statistics collected
  • Green Mountain Book Award voting
  • Freshman Core Information Literacy instruction pilot (Snelling and Nichols Cores)
  • Book requests/Inter-Library Loan (167 titles borrowed and ~25 titles loaned in 2007-08; 216 titles borrowed and ~25 titles loaned out in 2006-07)
  • Student book reviews

ESLs

  • Communication–ESL1
  • Reading—ESL 3
  • Technology—ESL 4
  • Critical Thinking—ESL 5
  • Problem Solving—ESL 6
  • Citizenship—ESL 10
  • Culture and Diversity in Community—ESL 12

Indicators of Community Involvement

  • Circulation to community
  • Inter-library loan services through the Vermont Department of Libraries and within CSSU
  • Library Web site
  • Special Events: “Data & Dessert” research evening for parents; Special Ed “Differentiated Materials” workshop; “Library Fusion” faculty in-service workshop
  • Student art displays
  • Use of library space for meetings, Access classes
  • Donations to collection—graduate fund & Bill Mares collection

Measures of Progress & Effectiveness

  • New CSSU-wide web-based catalog; increased sharing
  • Circulation (22,465 titles in 2008; 26,311 titles in 2007)
  • Collection Analysis May 2008 Collection Analysis ; May 2006 Collection Analysis ; Sep 2004 Collection Analysis
  • Database usage (12,112 sessions in 2005-06; 59,376 in 2006-07; 38,823 in 2007-08)
  • Freshman pre & post tests
  • TRAILS Information Literacy tests
  • Inter-Library Loan numbers (167 titles borrowed and ~25 titles loaned in 2007-08; 216 titles borrowed and ~25 titles loaned out in 2006-07)
  • New England Association of Schools and Colleges Report of the Visiting Committee (March 2007) link at top right

Future Work

  • Listen Up Vermont—online audio books service
  • Visit department meetings—improve teaching of resources and skills to teachers “train the trainer”
  • New Information Literacy assessment & freshman student survey

Needs from Board

  • Understand Services, Access & Instruction functions yield to Space function
  • Support in addressing NEASC recommendations (see attached NEASC report)
  • Fund summer work
  • Continue funding support for collection—electronic and print
  • Support time for librarians to work with and train faculty