ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS CENTER
http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente

CRUNCHED NUMBERS, 2005-2006
LIBRARY POWER PARTICIPATING LIBRARY
Professional, certified teacher-librarian, open access,
flexible scheduling, clerical assistance,
current and adequate collection, inviting facility

VISITS, CIRCULATION, COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:
Students with passes (individual, small group)...............................…………………6,640
Class visits, estimated 28 students/class ......................................482 visits x 28 = 13,496
Grand estimated total of student visits...........................................………………..20,136
Total book circulation ..................... …..............................……………………….17,925
Collaborative projects, 50
Social Studies 30, Science 18, RELA 2

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES:
* American Association of School Librarians national conference, Exploratorium (Best Practices) October 2005, Pittsburgh, PA. Librarian presented the bilingual reading incentive program that she created, available for viewing at http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente/contest.html.
* A POWER Library Tutorial created by a seventh grade student in 2004-2005 as part of the GenY Program was introduced to teachers in a September 2005 professional development session. This project may be viewed at http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente/power.html.
* Librarian facilitated the SDP professional development Miniversity day at Clemente School, 3/06. 7 speakers and 2 different computer lab programs were accommodated.
* Professional development for the librarian included a ProQuest professional development workshop.
* Librarian attended the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association conference in Hershey, PA.
* Librarian took the American Meteorological Society's Datastreme Oceans course to better understand the needs of students learning about oceans.
* Development of three new web pages: this one,Tohickon visit web page, reeferenced below, and a tribute to Ms. Mazzuca's twelve years as principal at Clemente http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente/InqSRJ2006.html

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
* During the first week of student attendance, the librarian visited 50 classrooms to introduce the school library program.
* Students were taught to bookmark and to use POWER Library. Using turnaround training, students then taught other students to bookmark the site to gain easy access to it from any computer in the building.
* URLs in support of teachers’ classroom lessons were added to the school library web site http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente/teachurl.html. Students were taught to bookmark this site for easy access to their teachers' preferred URLs.

SPECIAL PROJECTS:
* Librarian coordinated 2 days of visits to the library and classrooms by Mrs. Michael Sage, who based her presentation upon Michael Sage’s compilation of engaging oral language in The Whimsical Sage.
* Librarian coordinated 5 days of visits to the school library and classrooms by Mrs. Karletta Poland from the Drexel University Nutrition program.
* Librarian collaborated with the Literacy and Math coaches to write, produce, and direct 32 public address announcements delivered by 17 students in support of PSSA testing.
* The librarian was co-coordinator with Mrs. Carol Hamilton, Literacy Specialist, of a Reading Olympics Program sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia. 12 Clemente students participated at Temple University, reading and answering questions abou t20 books they had read.

SPECIAL EVENTS:
* The BookPals program was continued with students at Tohickon Middle School, Bucks County. BookPals was created and produced by two ninth grade students at Tohickon as a community service project to provide participating Clemente students with up to 6 books to own. The program encourages writing with the intent of increasing PSSA scores and fostering knowledge of diversity among the students at both schools. The Tohickon students' plan may be viewed at http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente/bookpals2.html.
Photographs of the 2006 visit of Tohickon students to Clemente School may be viewed at
http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente/Tohickon06.html

BOOK FAIRS AND DISTRIBUTIONS INC. CONTESTS, RAFFLES, ETC.:
* A staff raffle was held the first days of school in September to encourage teachers to visit the IMC and sign up for library accounts.
* 3 reading incentive contests@ your library/@ su biblioteca were held: Million $ Pony Contest/Concurso Millonario de el Caballito; Bear Hug Contest/Concurso del Apretujon; and the Big Pig ContestConcurso de Cerdo Grande. More information about these contests in English and Spanish can be found at http://libraries.phila.k12.pa.us/clemente/contest.html.
* At least 700 books were selected by contest winners from the Prize Book Cart to help build home libraries.
* Book fairs were held in November and April, including Teacher Previews with coffee and pastry. The April book fair was a BOGOF, "Buy One Get One Free" to encourage students to build home libraries. Each book fair included a raffle to stimulate purchase of reading books.

STAFFING:
* Additional staffing includes one part-time, bilingual aide, Ms. Migdalia Torres.
* 20 students were trained as Library Aides to help behind the circulation desk and assist at the book fairs and during end-of-the-year inventory. They were treated to a winter social activity and an end-of-the-year social activity and were given books of their choice from the book fairs and the Prize Book Cart.

COLLECTION:
* The collection includes over 23,000 current items (average copyright date of 1994) in support of both the curriculum and pleasure reading.
* 1500 books were added to the collection this year.
* The latest circulation policy allows students to borrow one hardback and one paperback book, or four paperback books, at one time.

CERTIFIED LIBRARIAN:
Librarian is a member of American Library Association, Pennsylvania School Librarians' Association and Association of Philadelphia School Librarians (APSL). She has been elected to the board of the Association of Philadelphia School Librarians for the 2006-2007 school year.

Carol W. Heinsdorf, Librarian
Migdalia Torres, SSA
Patricia Mazzuca, Principal