WAW Award Ceremony

Each school year, LMS students are introduced to the William Allen White (WAW) Book Nominees for the current year. These books have been chosen as some of the best written for their age group. Students have from mid-October until April 15th to read the nominated books and vote for their favorite. The winning titles are announced a few days following the voting and awards are presented to the winning authors in the fall. At Larned Middle School, any student who reads and writes a book review on at least 2 WAW book nominees from their grade level is eligible to attend the WAW Award Ceremony and

sleepover. Any student who reads and writes a book review for every title from their grade level will be able to attend the ceremony and sleepover free of charge.

This October Ms. Lehman took 3 eligible students to the WAW Award Ceremony and sleepover. On October 1st the group traveled to the recreational center in

Emporia, KS for the sleepover. Students were able to swim and play basketball, fussball and pool. They also participated in a Q&A session with the winning authors, Cynthia Kadohata and Barbara O'Connor. After a brief sleep, we woke early to attend the author signing at

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Kaitlynn meets author Cynthia

Kadohata

Mission

The Larned Middle School Library will be an inviting, user-friendly hub providing opportunities for active, engaging and challenging learning for students and staff through various media resources, programming and collaboration. The LMS Library will provide a quality program that will enable students to be lifelong learners and enhance the curriculum and technology standards of Larned Middle School.

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LARNED MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARYOCTOBER MONTHLY REPORT

GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST JANICE KNEISLEY, LIBRARY ASSISTANT

Program HighlightsLMS LIBRARY

INTERNET IDENTITY

Card Catalog: Allows students and staff to search the collection at school or home--http://98.172.116.52/simple/?sessionid=1NYR545AQ36404832

LMS Library Website: General information on library policies & procedures, programs and Teen Advisory Group--http://www.usd495.net/1507201712277/site/default.asp

• Mrs. Kneisley ran a Word of the Day contest. If students used the word of the day correctly in a sentence, their name was entered in a drawing for a prize at the end of the week.

• New laptop cart and computers arrived at the middle school during Parent/Teacher Conferences. The new laptops were available for checkout the last week of October.

• Sixteen new titles were added to the library collection during the month.

• Ms. Lehman attended the Kansas Association of School Librarians Conference in Junction City and come back with new ideas to promote books and incorporate more technology with the students of LMS.

WAW continued...the Emporia State University Memorial Union. Our students were among the first 10 to get their books signed by both authors. Following the book signing, the students participated in various activities at the student union. The morning concluded with the actual award ceremony where the authors were presented the WAW Award for their books.

Data SnapshotsLMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010LMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010LMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, SEPTEMBER 2010

Total Circulation 19661966

5th Grade Circulation 629629

6th Grade Circulation 622622

7th Grade Circulation 147147

8th Grade Circulation 157157

Other 411411

Card Catalog Total Page Hits 19441944

Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 6666

Filled Denied

Total Resource Requests Unable to obtain due to program errorUnable to obtain due to program error

Sticky Bubbles

Writing letters to favorite WAW

authors

For more pictures see the video on the LMS Library Website

accessible through the district website