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Holly Meadows Elementary School: Case Study

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Holly Meadows Elementary school is a public school located in the Barrie Ontario. Holly Meadows is a part of the Simcoe County District School Board which is an English speaking public school board that serves the Simcoe County. Holly Meadows is one of the 85 elementary schools that make up the Simcoe County District School Board. The Holly Meadows school library serves about 659 students who range in age and grade from junior kindergarten to grade 8. This particular school library must also serve about 62 different staff members. There is a pretty large amount of students who attend Holly Meadows and there is also quite a few of staff who serve at this school. Those who work in the Holly Meadows library must work to create and …show more content…

The front doors of the library are located at the very front on the school only a few steps away from the main office which makes the library very easy to locate. The books are all neatly arranged on nice wooden shelves. The shelves containing the nonfiction books are mostly located towards the from doors of the library. The shelves containing the fiction books are arranged according to reading level. Picture books for the children are located near the story time area while the junior and intermediate level books are located closer to the checkout counter. Arranging the books in this way has made the library look very neat, organized and easy to navigate. The Holly Meadows library has also provided a very comfortable seating area located towards the center of the library where the students can sit after checking out some books and a fun carpet in the story time area for the younger children to sit on. The library also has a very creative and fun look due to the many colourful posters that are hung around the various areas of the library, most of the posters though are located towards the front doors of the library where the students line up before leaving the library to go back to their classrooms. many of these posters use popular TV, movie or book characters to encourage the students to read and visit their library more often. One of the best parts about this library however was windows. …show more content…

The library is run by Ms. O'Donal-Cook who is a teacher-librarian. A Teacher librarian is responsible for the task of working with students and staff to develop collections that are both engaging and helpful to the staff and students. In order to provide this service for staff and students some of the day to day tasks that a teacher librarian must handle are the organizing and managing of the library's collection, organizing mini lessons, story time and other activities for the children, guide students to appropriate reading materials, checking books in and out of the library, help both the staff and students to find and understand information, help the students to become critical thinkers especially when doing research, help students to become good readers, help students to become good researchers, help students to learn and practice digital citizenship, advocate the library program throughout the school and at school board meetings, teach the students and staff members how to properly use the technology that is available at the library, deal with any complaints from parents, deal with reconsideration of materials requests, keep up to date with district school board policies on materials in the library, and collect and analyze data collected from the library A teacher librarian may also be expected to create and carry out special events

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