[aisle] Return to In-Person for High Schools

Wed Sep 30 14:05:01 CDT 2020

My library is being used as a classroom throughout the day. So students are
in the room, but are not allowed to browse books. I have them email me (our
system doesn't have holds) if they have a book they want to check out. I
also share new books (using ThingLink) and book-ish things on our social
media and in a Google Classroom I made for 6-12 (our building). If a
student needs books, depending on their age, I either deliver them to their
reading classroom or put them in the gym (it's being used as a socially
distanced holding tank during passing periods to reduce the number of
students in the halls at one time.)

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:32 PM Leslie Brenner via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> My questions specifically are:
>
>    - Are you allowing students into the library to use the space (study
>    hall/free period/etc.)? What are your expectations and procedures for that?
>    Anything different than pre-COVID? *I do allow students to the
>    library, but if they remain here, for whatever reason a teacher sends them,
>    the seating rule is one student per table. Pre-Covid, students were allowed
>    to work or hang out here before and after school and during lunch periods.
>    I have eliminated visits to the library for those times and received
>    support with this policy. During their study hall/free period, students are
>    no longer allowed to meet in groups here, and the study rooms are now used
>    for allowing teachers an extra space to work and socially distance from
>    colleagues. A couple new teachers and our principal have opted to use the
>    study rooms. Other than that, teachers really haven't sent students to work
>    in the library for any reason. *
>    - Are you allowing students to browse the collection, or only place
>    holds and library staff retrieve books? I am currently doing curbside
>    pickup and plan to continue that and have hold pickups in the library, but
>    I know my students normally like to browse. *I am allowing
>    book checkouts and have paid for ILL service for the year, but I'm
>    no longer offering in-person book talk visits to classrooms.  These used to
>    really help me increase circulation. I'm currently offering a contactless
>    checkout process- students search and request material via online catalog
>    and I place items on a pick-up table just outside the library entrance. I
>    do the same thing with their color print requests, but those have decreased
>    along with book checkouts.  *
>    - Anything you wish you had in place BEFORE students returned? *Not
>    really. This is truly uncharted territory, and I'm trying to be sensitive
>    to teachers' anxiety and stress, so I am making my peace with circulation
>    being low and teachers' unwillingness to collaborate right now. They have a
>    lot going on and have lost instruction time due to shifting from full
>    virtual mode, to hybrid, to now full-in person schedules in a matter of 6
>    weeks. I've started to reach out to teachers to offer tech support and keep
>    them posted on tips/tricks with tech tools they've started using,
>    especially those who have to use our LMS for consistently now. **To
>    keep students posted on changes and offer virtual activities/resources, I
>    plan to send out a bi-weekly student newsletter, contribute posts to our
>    new online school newspaper, and communicate via morning announcements and
>    announcements sent through our LMS.*
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:47 PM Renee Kozeal via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> I forgot to say that we are allowing students to place holds in our
>> catalog. We pull the books and take them, along with any ILL books that
>> kids have ordered, out to one of their teachers. I have also put a Book
>> Request Form (Google Form) on our webpage for kids who don't remember how
>> to place holds or who want a recommendation. Anyway, we are keeping up with
>> this so far. Remote students pick up and drop off books in the vestibule of
>> our main entrance which we arrange with them through email .
>>
>> Renee Kozeal
>> Princeton HS
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:41 AM Renee Kozeal <renee.kozeal at phs-il.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We have been on an blended schedule since our first day and haven't
>>> closed once. Unfortunately, the administration told me that I would be
>>> closed during our shortened school day and open in the afternoon for
>>> students to come in after classes are over for the day (no one comes in, of
>>> course). I am to go to classrooms to work with teachers and have done that.
>>> I did ask if I could allow 1-2 students at a time from a class to come in
>>> to checkout books if the teacher wanted to send them. I did get approval
>>> for that. The first business I had was our freshmen lit classes. We are not
>>> allowing students to browse on their own and touch books. So, to prepare, I
>>> filled the tops of our low bookshelves with genre displays that are loaded
>>> with sure hits. This way, if a student wants a "sports book" or a "mystery"
>>> we go walk around that display, and I do mini booktalks to help them choose
>>> a book. Sometimes we get back to the regular shelves if my interview
>>> questions take us there. But this has worked pretty well so far. We just
>>> keep the displays full of winners.
>>>
>>> We have a few students assigned to us that are doing online classes
>>> independently on our "Blue" days. Otherwise, we don't get much traffic as
>>> the kids are pretty shut down in the classrooms with little time between
>>> classes. I recently asked our administration if we could reevaluate having
>>> classes come in to do research if we take very careful steps. One of our
>>> English teachers went with me to advocate for this opportunity. Crossing my
>>> fingers!
>>>
>>> Renee Kozeal
>>> Princeton HS
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:01 AM Amy Phillips via AISLE <
>>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good morning.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for some help and information from other high school
>>>> libraries that have had students return to school in-person. My district is
>>>> looking to start bringing students back on to campus for 2nd Quarter, and I
>>>> want to make sure my procedures for the library are up to date for COVID
>>>> and are reasonable. I created a plan over the summer, but I know things
>>>> have changed slightly, which is why I'm looking at all of this again.
>>>>
>>>> My questions specifically are:
>>>>
>>>>    - Are you allowing students into the library to use the space
>>>>    (study hall/free period/etc.)? What are your expectations and procedures
>>>>    for that? Anything different than pre-COVID?
>>>>    - Are you allowing students to browse the collection, or only place
>>>>    holds and library staff retrieve books? I am currently doing curbside
>>>>    pickup and plan to continue that and have hold pickups in the library, but
>>>>    I know my students normally like to browse.
>>>>    - Anything you wish you had in place BEFORE students returned?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for any and all advice!
>>>> Amy Phillips
>>>> Riverside Brookfield High School
>>>> Library Media Specialist
>>>> aebromberg at gmail.com
>>>> phillipsa at rbhs208.net
>>>> 847-722-6169
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> *Renee Kozeal*
>>>
>>> School Librarian
>>>
>>> Scholastic Bowl Coach
>>>
>>> Princeton High School
>>>
>>> renee.kozeal at phs-il.org
>>>
>>> 815/875-3308, ext. 1080
>>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> School Librarian
>>
>> Scholastic Bowl Coach
>>
>> Princeton High School
>>
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>>
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> Best regards,
>
> Leslie Brenner
> Librarian/Media Specialist
> Saint Joseph High School
> 453 N. Notre Dame Ave.
> South Bend, IN 46617
> (574) 233-6137, ext. 200
> saintjoehigh.com
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