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Direct linkSamantha Archibald Mora; Amy Bingham – Knowledge Quest, 2023
The Wood River Middle School (WRMS) serves approximately 600 students a year. The school is diverse, with roughly half Latinx students and a large English language learner population. The library collection boasts almost 16,000 books. The most popular section? If you combine the manga and graphic novel sections, they win the top prize, with 38% of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Libraries, Cartoons, Novels
Download full textJulie Stivers – Knowledge Quest, 2023
The students at the author's alternative, academic-recovery school come from their base schools and at the author's school are able to rewrite their own school stories. Some of that rewriting naturally happens in the library. Many of the students have experiences at multiple schools, but it is not until they come to the author's school that many…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Student Participation
Peer reviewedGrigsby, Susan K. S. – Knowledge Quest, 2014
Middle school librarian Susan Grigsby believes strongly in teaching independence in book selection, and has been able to back up her belief by putting programs in place that provide evidence to show her administrators how fostering independence works. She spends time creating personal bibliographies for her students based on an interest survey.…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Materials, Library Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Vanneman, Susan – School Library Monthly, 2010
The relentless quest of the school librarian is finding the right book for each student, searching for the home-run book for every child, and keeping students reading book after book after book. A considerable amount of the school librarian's time, effort, and creativity are devoted not only to motivating students to read, but to keeping them…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, School Libraries, Librarians, Reading Motivation
Jones, Leigh Ann – School Library Journal, 2007
In the spring of 2005, the author created a short, online questionnaire to capture data about middle schoolers and book covers, and after several pilot studies she posted it to SurveyMonkey.com. The study includes the fiction books for middle school from the 2005 Quick Picks list. Over the course of a week, participants reported to the school…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Measures (Individuals), School Libraries, Literature Appreciation
Gagnon Jr, William L. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2003
Most school districts do not have a full time human resources administrator to conduct interviews and this important task most often becomes the responsibility of the building principal or a department head. Here is a guide designed for hiring employees, both professional staff as well as non-professional, in public, parochial, or private schools.…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Occupational Information, Personnel Selection, Resumes (Personal)
