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= SPP Site Details =

Over the course of my SPP I have had the chance to visit 2 main school libraries, one a P-7 State School in Brisbane, the other a P-12 Independant School on the Gold Coast. The latter I have actually had the fortune of gaining full-time employment at since my first visit in 2010. Throughout the year in my role as a Junior School Teacher Librarian I have also had the opportunity several times to visit other local schools (part of the Gold Coast branch of SLAQ) and check-out what they do.

Following is a breakdown of the hours completed at each site.


 * Site 1: Macgregor State School**

Tuesday 16th March 2.00 – 3.30pm 1.5hrs

Activities:
 * General tour of the library learning where everything is found (i.e. junior fiction, easy readers, shelf markers etc)
 * A quick browse of how to use the library catalogue
 * TL interview
 * Unpacked new books purchased by TL and talked about process of buying etc
 * Checked out storeroom and discussed what is done with dated books (sent off to Charity Organisations that post them to other countries e.g. Fiji)
 * Observed after-school borrowing and role of library monitors

Wednesday 24th March 1.15 – 3.15pm 2hrs

Activities:
 * Monitoring of the library through the lunch break, interacting with students/library monitors etc
 * A guide through the culling process – guidelines on culling i.e. when/what to cull. Process of what takes place: book is taken off the shelf, checked out of the catalogue, barcode is covered and books sent away
 * Went through the process of putting new books onto the system – checking with the catalogue etc – process involved; entered by library aide, then checked by TL
 * Observed prep class on Little Red Riding Hood – drama

Tuesday 30th March 1.00pm – 3.15pm 2.15hrs

Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Stock takes for next term. Getting together all the books needed for each classroom covering the topics they will be studying
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">TL formulated lists of everything that was needed, how many copies, which classes etc. Job was to look through each section e.g. Junior Fiction, find the book and pile each classes books together

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wednesday 31st March 1.00pm – 3.15pm 2.15hrs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Re-ordering the books in the non-fiction section – making sure the Dewey system was in numerical order.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wednesday 14th April 1.00pm – 3.30pm 2.5hrs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Monitor students using library during lunch time – watch the processes of borrowing/returning etc and how the library monitors work
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Put together new curriculum packages for year 6 classes – found the books off the shelves, grouped them in subjects for each class and then used the system to check them out to each class teacher and printed a list of resources borrowed for them

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wednesday 21st April 1.00pm – 3.00pm 2hs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wet-weather policy so no students in library at lunch time. TL showed me the different series books that they have in the collection and highlighted the good ones/popular ones
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Observed TL take a year 7 lesson – Drama activities based on Shaun Tan’s “The Arrival”.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tuesday 27th April 1.00pm – 3.00pm 2hrs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Supervised children in the library during the lunch break
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Observed TL take the same lesson for a different year 7 class

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tuesday 11th May 1.00pm – 3.00pm 2hrs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Supervised children in the library during the lunch break
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Helped with returns and check-outs (using e-library)
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Observed TL take year 7 lesson – Drama activities continued

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tuesday 18th May 1.00pm – 3.00pm 2hrs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Supervised children in the library during the lunch break
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Observed TL take year 7 lesson on immigration interviews – Drama

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tuesday 25th May 11.00am – 3.00pm 4hrs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activites:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Observed Grade 2 drama lesson on production lines based on what students were currently learning in science. Facilitated a group of students during each lesson.
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Supervised students in the library during the lunch break
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Did returns and check-outs for year 6 and 2 classes that were borrowing
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Observed the Library Aide as she catalogued some new books

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wednesday 26th May 1.00pm – 4.30pm 3.5hrs

<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Activities:
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Went to TL’s regional network meeting with other TL’s
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Shared ideas about lessons that could be used with the books listed during Book Week festivities
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Heard from a local council librarian about the Gold Star program and how TL’s could get on board
 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sat in on a Reader’s Cup Committee meeting – chose questions for each book to be used for the competition

Tuesday 10th August 9.00am - 3.00pm 6hrs
 * Site 2: Emmanuel College - Carrara**

Activities:
 * Observed junior school library lessons
 * supervised students in the library during the lunch break
 * sat-in on an Author visit to the Year 7 students

Tuesday 24th August 2.00pm - 5.30pm 3.5hrs

Activities:
 * commenced employment as a Library Assistant/After School Library Supervisor
 * learnt how to check books in and out using the LMS (Infocentre)
 * navigated through the library page on the school intranet and had a look at the online database subscriptions provided
 * supervised students in the library after school - assisted with homework, shelved books etc.

Monday 17th January

Activities:
 * commenced employment as a Teacher Librarian - core responsibility was running the study program offered by our school
 * In Term 2, took on a one year contract as the Junior School Librarian (maternity leave) - core responsibility involves taking all of the P-6 library lessons, facilitating the Year 7 Readers Cup team and other general library tasks and involvements.

Friday 14th October 12.00pm - 3.00pm 3hrs
 * Site 3: St Stephens College - Upper Coomera**

Activities:
 * tour of the new 'iCentre'
 * observed lunchtime operations
 * technology roadshow with other Teacher Librarians as part of the Gold Coast branch of SLAQ
 * informal discussion of how the TL's do things there