What does a librarian do when everyone has gone home for the summer, and she has extra days on her contract? Plan for next year. Actually this is a double duty day. I am working on my presentation for the summer TCEA Library Con, and planning for next year. Fortunately, that is what my presentation is all about. Hence, the double duty day.
Here is the blurb for my presentation which is at the end of June. I believe there are still seats available if you are interested. It is virtual. What's not to love about PD in your PJs?
Prepping your Library - One Year at a Time
This is the perfect time to start planning next year’s library agenda. In this session, you will see how one high school librarian organizes her whole year by aligning her monthly activities and classes with the 6 library strands: Information Literacy, Inquiry, Reading, Digital Learning, Safe & Nurturing Environment, and Leadership. Creating a digital storage space for all of your information will help you stay organized as well as make your appraisal easier when you have to provide documentation. Tech tools used in this session include Canva, Wakelet, Google Sites and more. You will leave this session with concrete examples and all of the templates you need to start planning your year.
I am excited about this one because it has helped me stay organized, focused, and at the end of the year, I can turn this in for my library evaluation. I first started this documentation 2 years ago. The first year, it was a reactive process. My appraiser wanted documentation for any standard I wanted to be rated above "proficient." To be honest, I am finishing up my 20th year as a librarian, and I'll take proficient at this point. However, the perfectionist in me decided to turn in a bunch of stuff anyway. LOL!
This is how my documentation looked year one: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nlhW9Fu4eS_PV8QvyJ03Wa1O3f5LSHyfbNqaHiywb7g/present?slide=id.p
Last year, after going to an amazing presentation at TxLA where Katy ISD organized their year, I decided to migrate from Google Slides to a Google Site. This is what that looked like:
https://sites.google.com/misdmail.net/shs-library-2022-23/home
Another difference between year 1 and year 2 was the planning piece. The second year was a proactive process instead of a reactive. So I planned and documented at the same time throughout the year. That helped me be more organized and focused. Now I am going to share that with others this June during the virtual Library Conference. Come and see me!
