EmailMe Form - 2021 ALSC Bookapalooza Program

2021 ALSC Bookapalooza Program

This application form cannot be saved during the process. Please do not fill out
and submit the form until you have all the necessary information. All
nomination forms are due by February 1, 2021.

Please refer to the ALSC Bookapalooza Program Web page

(http://www.ala.org/alsc/bookapalooza-program) for more information about
the application. If you would like to review the application before submitting
electronically, you can use the PDF document located on the Web page.

If you have problems submitting this electronic form, please contact Ariana
Hussain, ALSC Grants Administration Chair, at ariana.sani@gmail.com.

Fields marked with a red asterisks are required. Screen readers will say the
word "star."

CONTACT PERSON

Name * Carrie Doker

First Last

Title * Media Specialist

Organization * Sugar Hill Elementary School

Address * 939 Level Creek Road

Street Address

Address Line 2
Sugar Hill Georgia
City State / Province / Region
30518 USA
Postal / Zip Code Country / Region

Phone * 770 - 271 - 5135

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Fax Number 770 - 932 - 7421

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Email * carrie.doker@gcpsk12.org

Applicant must be a personal member of ALSC and ALA or apply for membership
when submitting the application.

Personal ALA Member # *

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X I have applied for membership to ALSC/ALA. I have sent
my membership application and dues payment to ALA.

LIBRARY INFORMATION

Name of Organization * Sugar Hill Elementary School

Director/Administrator Nick Boyers

Name * First Last

Address * 939 Level Creek Road

Street Address

Address Line 2
Sugar Hill GA
City State / Province / Region
30518 USA
Postal / Zip Code Country / Region

Phone * 770 - 945 - 5735

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Fax Number * 770 - 932 - 7421

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TYPE OF FACILITY

Checkbox * Public Library (single)

Private School Library
Library System
Institutional Library
Branch Library
X Public School Library

Other (not listed):

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Describe the community

that the library serves,
using quantitative data if
available. *

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The following demographics table shows that Sugar Hill

Elementary is a large elementary school within Gwinnett County
Public Schools. Our school is located about 30 miles north of
Atlanta and sits between Interstate 85 and Georgia SR 400. This
school building was built in 1997, but Sugar Hill Elementary
began in 1915 as a two-room school. The community has grown
exponentially since those early days, both in population and
diversity. Our school has 42% of students on free/reduced lunch.
We also have students from many different countries who speak
English as a second language (ESL). Our students speak 21
different languages; though most of our ELs speak Spanish,
while a handful speak Korean.

Describe your library.
Please include your overall
current services,
collections, and materials
budget for the library
overall and specifically for
your youth services
department. Please use
quantitative data if
available. *
Our library serves over 1100 students, and we have approximately 17,000 items in our
collection much of which is aged, worn, and/or non-circulated. As a new media specialist of
less than two years, I have made it a priority to update the collection, which has an overall
age of about 16 years. According to our Destiny Media Catalog statistics, our daily average
circulation is between 600-800 books. Each year we receive about $5,000 from our Media
Services department and $1,500 from school funds for book purchases to buy more up-to-
date titles (ebooks and print) for media center circulation. In addition to our media center
circulation, each summer we have offered used, donated books during the Summer Book
Mobile to our low-income families who are not able to visit the public library in the summer.
A parent liaison team, visits students in our apartments and low-income housing to
distribute books. Also, our school has a "Little Library" that is housed outside our school
from which our students can borrow used books. The donated books have been given to the
school , and the box is refilled as needed. Lastly, at the end of each school year, we provide
the "Take 5" program where students take home 5 books for the summer and return to
school in the fall. These books come directly from our media center collection and are
checked out to the student.

Describe how the collection
will be used/distributed
and how acquiring the
collection will help you
better serve the youth of
your community in creative
and innovative ways. *
Describe how your library
supports equity of access
and how you support your
youth patrons in access to
materials. *
Having a variety of newly published books and audiobooks from Bookapalooza available to
the students, teachers, and parents of our community will be positive assets for a number
of reasons. One fruitful way Bookapalooza would help is by using the new materials to put
books in the hands of our students during our Summer Book Mobile. So often, these
students do not get to visit the public library because their parents do not have
transportation. The Book Mobile affords these students an opportunity to choose from books
that are delivered to their apartment and housing complexes. This gives about 125 students
an opportunity to borrow new materials just as they would from the public library. Another
way Bookapalooza would help our school is by allowing us to add new books to our collection
more efficiently because of our ardent weeding process. Also, teachers are always looking
for new material to circulate during Reader's Workshop time and enhance instruction, which
Bookapalooza materials could do for our school. Lastly, Bookapalooza could replenish the
media center book collection due to lost books in our "Take 5" summer program, in which
over 200 students participate.
The media center is open each day from 8:30-2:30 for students and 7:30-4:00 for
teachers. Some classes visit the media center as a group, while some teachers send
students individually. While students visit the media center, there are always adults present
to assist students in locating materials and answering questions. (Besides the clerk and
media specialist, we have 12 volunteers). As the media specialist, I offer classes to students
to teach online resources, research tools, and digital citizenship. In addition to having a
physical media center, students also have access to our media catalog (ebooks) and the
online research library (approximately 13 databases) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As
mentioned in another statement, we offer the Book Mobile during summer, which visits the
apartment and housing complexes of our low-income families. Books are loaned to students
and lunches are provided for four weeks.

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT FORM

The Statement of Commitment form must be signed by the person completing the
application and the director of the public library, the superintendent of schools, the building-
level administrator, or the director of the institution.

Please refer to the ALSC Bookapalooza Program Web page

(http://www.ala.org/alsc/bookapalooza-program) to download this form and send to Ariana
Hussain, ALSC Grants Administration Chair, at ariana.sani@gmail.com.

I understand the terms and X Yes No

criteria for this application.
*

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SUBMISSION

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If you have any questions, please contact Ariana Hussain, ALSC Grants Administration Chair,
at ariana.sani@gmail.com. All applications must be submitted by February 1, 2021.

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