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Buffy Hamilton, School Librarian Roxanne Johnson, School Librarian

Tammy Beasley, Library Clerk

CREEKVIEW

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THE UNQUIET LIBRARY DECEMBER 2009 MONTHLY REPORT

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Program Highlights

Over 2000 hits on our library video, “What Makes a Library a Library?” on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/theunquietlibrary#p/u/4/l9oLj8mcnUQ

Ms. Lester’s students wowed each other and guest visitors with the “presentation zen” style talks on their “Issues in Africa” research.

The library hosted a special offer in which students could reduce their library fines in exchange for canned goods to support the Creekview HS Canned Food Drive.

Ms. Lester’s 9th grade students were introduced to blogging in Wordpress.

Completion of the Georgia Peach Book Award research pathfinder, featuring RSS feeds and widgets for each author’s blog, Twitter account, Facebook pages, book trailers, author interviews, and more at http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/peachbooks-readingbowl !

Our library blog received over 8600 hits during the month of December!

I like that I cannot rely on my slides as much. It requires me to actually learn what my project is about and not just copy and paste a whole paragraph into my power point then read it right off the slide when I am presenting. I felt that I was more connected to the class while presenting and I really liked that, it made me feel better about myself while I was actually up in front of the class. 10th grade student

Using the “presentation zen” style, I actually had to understand my findings. Because I couldn’t use bullets in my power point, I was forced to really connect to my research to talk about it during my presentation.

10th grade student

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Data Snapshots The Unquiet Library Statistics, December 2009 Number of Class Sessions Served 67 Number of Student Visitors (Morning, Lunch, Afternoon Hours)

2883

Total Circulation 575

9th Grade Circulation 230

10th Grade Circulation 134

11th Grade Circulation 105

12th Grade Circulation 106

Total GALE Databases Sessions 1590

Gale Virtual Reference Library 767

GALE Discovering Collection 305

Gale Opposing Viewpoints 127

Gale Literature Resource Center 183

Gale Global Issues in Context 80

Gale History Resource Center, World

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Gale History Resource Center, U.S. 34 The Unquiet Library Blog 8698

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Collaborative Lessons Learning Activities/Instructional Research Pathfinder Collaborative

Instructional Partner(s)

Introduction to Blogging, 9th Literature/Composition http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/bloggingandslideshare

Ms. Lester

Presentation Zen, 10th Literature/Composition http://www.theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/presentationzen

Ms. Lester

Influential Greek Figure Project, 10th Honors Literature/Composition http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/influentialgreek

Ms. Orfale

Amendments Cases Applied Scenarios, Criminal Justice http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/searchandseizure

Mr. Hubbard

Psychology Final Project, Psychology http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/hunsucker-psychology

Mr. Hunsucker

Renaissance and Reformation, World History http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/sinco-renaissance

Mr. Sinco