Ng Siu Hang Portfolio 1

SPACE Diploma in Teacher Librarianship

CD200709 Mentorship

Portfolio 1

Student Name: Ng Siu Hang

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Mentorship school: Creative Secondary School First meeting Date: 2009-3-3 (Tue) Time: 2-5pm Venue: School library A. Goals and objectives 1. Orientation 2. Set mentorship goals 3. Introduce library environment 4. Library information policies introduction B. Information seeking strategies - I contact Miss Ho before the first meeting. I send her my schedule and also my expectation of mentorship. - While we first meeting, we try to clarify our expectation, form a mentorship schedule, and evaluate some resource we get. - Miss Ho show me the school library facilities, the book shelves, and also introduce the library assistant. - I try to seek more information about the school background, the library setup history, and also the library year plans and some library policy documents. C. Analyse and synthesize the information - There are some Basic Facts of the school. •

New Co-educational DSS secondary school opened in Sept 2006

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English Medium of Instruction (EMI)

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Chinese taught through Putonghua

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Full capacity 30 classes, 5 classes / year, 900 students

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High teacher/student ratio at 1:15

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Small class sizes (below 30)

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IB World School for Middle Years Programme (MYP) since Feb 2009

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Implementing New Hong Kong Secondary Curriculum through the MYP framework

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Vertical House system for pastoral care and academic schemes 2

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There is some basic information of the school library. 

The school library is in the top floor of the school, sixth floor. It opened for three years.

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The library collections are fewer. And there library system is SLS.

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there have a anti-theft detection near the library entrance

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The opening hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm, from Monday to Friday school days. There are no library lessons, but the library will be book by school subject teachers. Sometimes only book the place, and sometimes will request the teacher librarian to cooperate in the lesson. Subject teachers book library through communicate with the teacher librarian in e-mail.

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The library environment is very neat, quiet and beautiful. There have plants, a photocopy machine and five computers for student to use. They open for three years and the collections are fewer. Due to this reason, the circulation rate is very lower.

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The library has fewer readers. For attract more readers to come, the library provide many games for readers to borrow. But when library open, student only play games and make a lot of noise. Suggest explore more internet resources for student self-learning and hold more activities in the library to attract readers.

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The library has an anti-theft detection, but just buy partly service. Each time after student borrow books, their need to keep their book in the counter, and take back when they leave library. The process is trouble and student always forget to take back their books when they leave library. Suggest buy the whole service when there have budget. Long term, when library have more readers, it will get trouble when all of them keep books in the counter.

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Flexible timetable let library become meaningful access when needed，flexible scheduling as providing a better opportunity for collaboration between teachers and the librarian and for curriculum support.

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There have no library nor will reading year plan, TL just take sample records after reading activities held. However a integrity year plan is very important. It helps library all aspect development. And let TL has an over-all view of the whole year job planning. It also help evaluation and amendment our job.

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There have no Collection Development Policies. But it is important to have Collection Development Policies. Collection Development Policies can guide the librarians how to develop in standard quality continuously. Policies give selectors a clear instruction and standards for the selection, acquisition, weeding of materials; avoided personal bias when selecting; guiding 3

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procedures in handling complaints; provides a standard for evaluation of collections. More important is let teachers, students, parents, librarians and outside peoples understanding the purposes and goals of library of the school.) Photos

The library collections

The library environment

Magazine shelf

Board games area

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Newspaper

The anti-theft detection

Photocopy machine

Projector

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Second meeting Date: 2009-3-6 (Fri) Time: 8am-5pm Venue: School library E. Goals and objectives 1. Observe library lesson demonstrate how to cooperate with subject teacher. 2. Observe and participate library club activities 3. Parent volunteers’ group 4. Observe library operations 5. Cataloging process observation and practice 6. Observe how to integrating information skills into the curriculum. F. Information seeking strategies -

Join the group meeting

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Join the class

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Join the activities

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Observation during the library open and provide service

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Interview with volunteers, students and the library assistant.

G. Analyse and synthesize the information -

Parent volunteer group will come to help the library each Tuesday because this day library will not being book by other subjects. The volunteers job include book package, put the books back to the shelf, book data entry and board design.

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Most of the student librarians are the library club member. They have no SL training. But the library club will have meeting each Fri after school. SL has no motivation to do their duty. The library club will teach some reading skills. Sometimes will facilitate the club member to promote reading activities such as invite school teacher to come to the book sharing.

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Collaborative practice as the major plank in a school's culture. I join two lesson. One of them is Chinese lesson, and TL has been require to prepare some newspaper for the student to doing newspaper cutting for information collection. Another lesson is science lesson, TL hold partly lesson to teach student the e-resource in the public.

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When lunch break, student less come to the library, most of them just come to play board games, borrow PC or stationary. The library will use light turn off as a signal of library closed. 6

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H. Self reflection and suggestions -

Collaborative practice as the major plank in a school's culture, but the collaborative level can be improve more by participate in subject meeting, then the TL will well-known what subject teacher need, and let the lesson more effective.

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Circulation service, there are rarely SL on duty, and the circulation rate is very low. Most of student come to the library for playing games, borrow PC or other stationary. Try to explore more e-resources in the web become more import. And also create more activities in the library is also important.

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About cataloguing, if catalogue books one by one in the SLS system, the data will be very precise, but it kill a lot of time. If use the excel file for block data entry, the preciseness may be low down, but save a lot of time. School library is different with a public library, their function is different, we concern more in educational process and outcome, so I think put more time in school reading development is more important than the data preciseness.

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The student librarian(SL) team: SL training is very important. Good quality SL help the library a lot. After training, give SL more important duty , for example let them do the circulation job, help classmate borrow and return books, it will attract them to come to do their duty.

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Library opening hour

Circulation counter

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Parent Volunteer group

Parent Volunteer group

Parent Volunteer group

Library club

Collaborative lesson

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Third meeting Date: 2009-3-17 (Tue) Time: 8am-5pm Venue: School library A. Goals and objectives 1. Study library system (SLS) 2. Exchange built up a library web-site experience 3. Evaluation B. Information seeking strategies - Oobserve and practice SLS cataloging and circulation. - Demonstration library web-site setup to the teacher librarian - Discuss with the TL and the library assistant. C. Analyse and synthesize the information - Cataloging method: SLS is not a user friendly library system. The cataloguing, import and export data are complicate. The circulation layout is also poor, uneasy to read and use. - Library role and information policy, because lack of budget, the collection are not enough to attract more reader, so try to explore more e-resources in the web become more import. And also create more activities in the library is also important. - TL duty: Busy because of the hold day opening time, from 8am to 5pm. Student will come anytime, even the library have lesson. She facilitate the reading programme, lead a library club, and train parent volunteers. - The assistant always busy in cataloguing. She catalogue books one by one in the SLS system. D. Self reflection and suggestions -

It is very important to choose a good, more user friendly library system, and it’s good for the library long term development.

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TL professional development: TL weak in the technology skill, so keep life-long learning is very important for a TL to get new knowledge.

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E. Photos--- Reading activites

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