Student Notes

LIBRARY PRACTICE

  • To be an aide in the library is a position of trust and responsibility.
  • It is more like a job than most classes in that you come in and go to work.
  • A lot of what you learn will be because you observe closely and ask questions.
  • Learn what we are trying to accomplish in the library and help where you can.
REQUIRED LIBRARY SKILLS 
Tutorials:    
  1. Library aides questionnaire
  2. Library aides procedures and expectations.
  3. Locations:    Learn where the most ask for items are in the library. 
    Learn where things are  well enough to help others find them.
  4. Straighten the library:  pick up books and magazines, pick up scraps and garbage, straighten tables and chairs, straighten computers, and straighten books on the shelf.
  5. Help people make photo copies:  photo copy policy,  transparencies,  two sided copies, lighter and darker, enlarge  and reduce, photographs, paper jams.
  6. Laminate:  Laminator policies, prop door open  when going to laminator, turn on for 20 min. warm up, check temperature, use scratch paper, laminate, trim in the library, repair lamination, precautions, clean up scraps, leave on, close door when leaving laminator.
  7. Books and libraries:  Parts of a book, book care, library rules and etiquette.  Literary genre.
  8. Locate and shelve books using call numbers.  
  9. Library catalog:  Use the "library search" for keyword, title, author, subject, series; use the "visual search" to browse; use "categories" to find special book lists,  use "book list."
  10. Straighten, locate, and shelve books
  11. Some important library reference book  types  are:   dictionaries in many subjects, encyclopedias in many subjects,  atlas, almanac, thesaurus, and gazetteers.  Some important titles are:  Webster's Dictionary,  National Geographic World Atlas,   Utah History Encyclopedia,  Famous First Facts,  Annals of America,  and Dictionary of American Biographies.    Learn to use an index, special indexes, cumulative index, index in an atlas, glossary, etc.
  12. Library research essentials:  A strategy for expanding knowledge.  Big 6 research strategy.
  13. Use of the school web site and intra net, in school, site:  links to course progress and pioneer, links to curriculum websites, calendar, teachers, departments, school song, bulldog clip art,  school tour.      http://www.graniteschools.org/jr/olympus
  14. Pioneer on line library essentials:  Culture grams, EBSCO, eMedia,  SIRS Discoverer, SIRS Knowledge Source, Visual Thesaurus, World Book Encyclopedia and dictionary, Deseret News, SURWEB,  State of Utah Archives, Utah Collections Multi Media Encyclopedia, Utah Digital News Papers, home use of the K-12 Pioneer, and home use of the Public Library Pioneer.   http://pioneer-library.org/
  15. Internet research essentials:  selected links,  search selected sights, web crawlers, meta search engines, search strategies, Boolean log,  background information, evaluate sources, sight sources.
  16. Giving credit for intellectual works, bibliography, plagiarism, paraphrasing, quoting, etc.
  17. The book and publication in the development of  technology and a prediction of the future.
ELECTIVE MEDIA SKILLS
  1. Process magazines:  checks magazines from publisher, stamps and labels magazines, prepares routing slips to teachers, checks in magazines from teachers, shelves magazines, straightens magazines,  and checks for out of date magazines.
  2. Covers book and processes books to be placed on the shelf.
  3. Keyboard:  To put many lists on the internet we first must key the information into the computer and then post the information to the web. 
  4. Photograph.  We use photographs on the morning announcements on,  the web sites, posters, and signs.  Most of what we do are still shots and we do some movies.  Photographic work by aides who have take the Art Department's photography class are usually more usable.  We make decisions based upon the work however.
  5. Webpage
  6. Power point and Movie Maker
  7. TV studio.  We show announcements each morning.  Mostly student body officers, class officers, and cheerleaders are in front of the camera and do the technical work too.  We ask a few library aides and others,  if they are especially interested and dependable,  to assist with the TV equipment.   We like to train a few aides on all aspects of the studio to serve as a backup if needed.   TV technical jobs include:  sound switcher, video switcher, teleprompter, TV photographers, computer graphics,  and  floor director.  Two or three students read announcements, some students are ask to make occasional announcements,  special reports are an added feature.
  8. TV production. 
  9. TV reporting and investigation
  10. Book mending and magazines
  11. Processes books
  12. Maintain computers.  Checks that wires are plugged in properly, re-images computers, moves computers, etc.

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