BECL  Report  ~  May  2012  

 

Library Services Exploratorium in the Celeste Bartos

Forum at the NYPL Schwarzman building Presenting in the Celeste Bartos Forum at the NYPL Schwarzm

Poetry Collection Our library was selected to receive a poetry collection from the Fund for Public Schools in honor of Caroline Kennedy. The Fund is providing our library with this collection to commemorate Caroline Kennedy’s years of service to schools. Recommendations will come from The Fund for Public Schools and NYC Dept. of Education. We have also been invited to recommend titles for this collection. We are truly honored and excited for this collection and for the positive effect it will have on our library community. Presenting at the Exploratorium We were asked to present our work with LibGuides at the annual Library Services Spring Exploratorium. Our presentation focused on how we use LibGuides to disseminate information to our library community. The presentation was well received by librarians in the NYC Dept. of Education and librarians from different library systems in New York. We look forward to using LibGuides next year to continue integrating multimedia resources, promoting library initiatives, creating additional guides, and providing research help. Bathgate Library LibGuides link http://tinyurl.com/BECLguides New Yorkers Read Grant Our grant application for the New Yorkers Read grant was approved. We received our collection of non-fiction books and they are already circulating among both our students and staff! Our non-fiction book club will begin during the next school year in the fall. The next step in the process of the grant is a day of Professional development on running book clubs and energizing a school wide reading community. New Visions Campus Librarians Network The Campus Librarians Network will meet for the last time on May 31st 2012. We will present LiveBinders that we’ve created for our school library. We also plan to discuss The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicolas Carr. Our discussion and work on librarian evaluation in NYC schools using the Danielson LMS rubric will also continue. Bronx Health Connect We are pleased to host the second professional development session of the new Health-Ed curriculum for NYC DOE schools on June 13th & 18th. We look forward to continuing to work with this new and important curriculum. Important Dates New Yorkers Read PD ~ 6/7 Closed for inventory ~ 6/11-6/27 BX Health Connect PD ~ 6/13 & 6/18

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Circulation stats - 573 books Computer Usage -924 VPA Classes – 14 AMS Classes – 18 MHBX – 11