Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment

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I am in a new school this year, so speaking with the media specialist was an eye opening experience. Our media specialist is in her third year and was able to tell me about her policies, although they are not in written form at this time. Our kindergarten and first graders can check our one book at a time, 3-4 may check out two books, and grade 5 can check out three books. The biography section is only available for checkout for grades 2-5. If students have any overdue or lost books, they are not allowed to check out until that book is returned or paid for. If a student has not paid for a lost book by the end of the school year, or upon withdrawal from the school, report cards and records will be held. Students may only check out once a day. Students may keep books up to two weeks, although circulation history shows many only keep them for a week at a time. Students may visit the library from 7:50-2:00 each day with a pass from their teacher. Classes do sign up for specific content on a monthly basis. Such topics include: research skills, Destiny tools, Web 2.0 tools with the technology specialist, or any subjects the teacher suggests. Kindergarten is offered story time once a month with a skill focus given by the homeroom teacher. Inventory is conducted at the end of the year. The library closes …show more content…
This surprised me when I interviewed the media specialist, and her reasoning was that upper grades needed them for projects much of the time. While I understand this, in the social studies curriculum in first grade alone they study many individuals such as Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Ruby Bridges. Students might want to explore those people more than what they have discussed in the classroom and having the ability to check out biographies could allow that to happen. As Johnson & Donham point out “...access is not dependent on age or reading