Highlights of the School Year 2011/2012

Name: Ashley Farr

Area of Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist

Highlights of 2011/2012 (program, academic, curricular, resources, honors, activities, events, etc.):
Open library (2nd Saturday of every month)
Implementation of Big 6 Research Model in connection with RLA committee
Middle school book club year long
Quarterly library programs to encourage reading: mystery character, lucky book, trivia
Celebration of Year of the Reader (Thing 1 and Thing 2)
Birthday book program
Secondary textbook inventory added to library catalog
New database purchases and increased usage of EBSCO
Implementation of eBooks in library collection
Technology/library in-services for information literacy
Full library inventory and collection analysis at the end of the year
Worked in collaboration with classroom teachers at every grade level K-12 on research aspects

Accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

An IB World School, authorized to present the Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate Organization.