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    Reference Collection Evaluation Jen Wilson

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    The reference collection at McGarrah Elementary School is outdated and in need of updating. The collection consists of old encyclopedias from 2004 and dictionaries that do not match and are outdated. The media specialist was given a $10,000 budget to update collections, allocating $350 to reference materials. New reference materials ordered include the First Space Encyclopedia and the Time for Kids Almanac 2012. An online Britannica school edition was also purchased to provide additional online reference resources.

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    The reference collection at McGarrah Elementary School is outdated and in need of updating. The collection consists of old encyclopedias from 2004 and dictionaries that do not match and are outdated. The media specialist was given a $10,000 budget to update collections, allocating $350 to reference materials. New reference materials ordered include the First Space Encyclopedia and the Time for Kids Almanac 2012. An online Britannica school edition was also purchased to provide additional online reference resources.

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    The reference collection at McGarrah Elementary School is outdated and in need of updating. The collection consists of old encyclopedias from 2004 and dictionaries that do not match and are outdated. The media specialist was given a $10,000 budget to update collections, allocating $350 to reference materials. New reference materials ordered include the First Space Encyclopedia and the Time for Kids Almanac 2012. An online Britannica school edition was also purchased to provide additional online reference resources.

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    Reference Collection Evaluation Jen Wilson

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    The reference collection at McGarrah Elementary School is outdated and in need of updating. The collection consists of old encyclopedias from 2004 and dictionaries that do not match and are outdated. The media specialist was given a $10,000 budget to update collections, allocating $350 to reference materials. New reference materials ordered include the First Space Encyclopedia and the Time for Kids Almanac 2012. An online Britannica school edition was also purchased to provide additional online reference resources.

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    Reference Collection Evaluation By: Jennifer Wilson

    Description of Site McGarrah is a part of the Clayton County Public School System and located in Morrow, GA, which is 13 miles south of Atlanta. McGarrah Elementary School is one of 39 elementary schools. The school is home to 676 Pre-K 5TH grade students (including 3 Special Needs/Autistic units) and 47 high-qualified faculty & staff members. McGarrah Elementary has made AYP for the past 9 years and has been a Title 1 distinguished school for 7 years. The schools media center is located in the center of the school and houses a collection of 22,032 print materials and 155 DVD and 742 video titles (total of 897 in all). The school has a variety of technology-based materials (digital cameras, flip cameras, document cameras, notebook carts, TurningPoint Clickers, and much more) for teachers to use for instruction enhancement. The media center has 16 computers within the center and 1 computer lab with 30 computers that are connected to the media center. The media center also contains a media room where the 4th and 5th grade SCORE students create, produce, and broadcast the morning announcements/news. Each teacher has been given a laptop to use for work and at home. Each classroom is equipped with an LCD projector, an InterWrite Board or a pull down screen with an InterWrite Pad, 2 4 desktop computers, a DVD/VCR, and some classrooms contain TurningPoint Clickers and Document Cameras. Our school is also equipped with several new notebook carts for classroom use. The reference collection at McGarrah Elementary School is very small, old, outdated, missing parts of a set, in need of repair, and in most cases not used. There are 566 reference materials, which are housed on 2 large bookcases and several rolling carts for classroom use. The reference collection consists of 3 sets of World Book Encyclopedias (newest is 2004), a few 2007 Almanacs, Atlases with small globes for different grade levels (these are out newest purchase and the most up-to-date in our collection), and dictionaries that are also outdated. Each classroom is provided with a class set of dictionaries (that do not match, are old, and outdated) and in some classrooms a few out-of-date thesauruses. The media specialist would like to purchase newer materials, but that can be accessed through an online subscription and/or software. Our school did very well on the CRCT, in that we met our school goal, but there are still many areas for improvement. One of those areas is in reference skills. I dont think the solution is to weed out all of the text materials and old materials, in order to add new online materials. I do think the outdated and some old materials need to be

    replaced with newer and more updated materials, but in some instances, some of the old materials could be used to teach students, especially our younger learners, about the differences in our culture now and in the past. The Media Center also provides students and teachers with a variety of magazines and teacher resources, including Family Fun, Mailbox, Time, etc. But, due to recent budget cuts, the media specialist has chosen to use her allotted money in other ways, therefore, not renewing many of the magazine and resource book subscriptions. McGarrah Elementary Schools website and many of its teachers websites offer parents and students a number of online resources (websites) to assist students with their work and their learning. Brain Pop Eduplace Galileo Google Earth New Georgia Encyclopedia Encyclopedia.com Maps, Global Map, and World Atlas - National Geographic Fact Monster Merriam Webster's Open Dictionary World Book Kids World Almanac for Kids Yahooligan's Almanac

    Budget Information Due to the economy, McGarrah Elementary Schools media center is lacking the funds needed increase and update many of the collections within the center, especially the reference section, as its materials are too expensive and used less often by our students. Luckily, because my school is a Title I funded school, the media center was recently given a budget of $10,000 to spend on updating and adding to her collection, which my media specialist chose to add to the science and social studies collections and to purchase additional AR tests, but did allot a small portion of that money ($350) for updating reference section materials. Due to the media specialist wanting to focus on purchasing and updating our science and social studies collections, so I tried to choose reference materials that were science and/or social studies related as much as possible.

    In addition to purchasing new print resources, a wiki is being provided to students, parents, and teachers to assist them with additional online reference resources. http://supplementalreferencecollectionwiki.wikispaces.com/

    Reference Collection Order Vendors: Amazon and Britannica


    Reference Materials Order - J. Wilson Amazon (http://www.amazon.com) First Space Encyclopedia (DK First Reference) [Hardcover] TIME For Kids Almanac 2012 [Paperback] Budget = $350.00 Classific ation Referenc e Referenc e Langua ge Publishin g Date

    Author

    Publisher

    Price

    ISBN 978-0-75663366-0 978-160320-8833

    Dewey

    Grade Everyo ne Everyo ne

    Reviews

    DK Publishing Editors of Time for Kids Magazine

    DK Children Time for Kids Books

    $11.55

    REF

    English

    01/21/08

    $10.19

    REF

    English

    6/14/2011/

    Total Britannica (http://www.britannicastore.com) Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia Britannica

    $21.74

    Britannica Online School Edition

    $333.0 0

    0-85229937-0

    Online

    Referenc e

    PK-12

    English

    2008

    School Library Journal & Booklist

    Total

    $333.00

    Grand Total

    $354.74

    Materials Weeded from the Reference Collection No materials were weeded at this time as our school is going through renovations this spring and summer and the media specialist requested that we wait to weed the reference section until inventory was completed and things were ready to be boxed up.

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