1. Oak Park and River Forest
High School Library
February 2012 Monthly Report

2. Highlights
Adding LibGuides next year to Adding Gale Virtual Reference
improve upon our highly utilized Library next year to shift to more
assignment pathfinders digitized reference materials.

3. Highlights
Book Club Meeting

4. Highlights
Nooks Fully Processed Nooks Cataloged

5. Highlights
• Silver & Gold High School Librarian Consortium Meeting
• Discussed OverDrive, Common Core impact on school libraries,
and librarian evaluations.
• Ms. Blackwell’s class - Abraham Lincoln Book Award voting
party
• Black History Month Book Display

6. Collaboration (Pathfinder created and books/materials pulled for following)
• Tyrone Williams – 2nd Semester Research Paper
• Emmanuel Pena – Sept. 11th Debate
• Dan Greenstone – Sept. 11th Debate
• Dana Limberg – Immigration Policy Debate
• Katie O’Keefe -- Immigration Policy Debate
• Jessica Young – Slavery in World History Research
• DiVerde – Cultures Glogster Project
• Strimple – Monologue Selection
• Strimple – Theatre Timeline Project
• McGuckin – Primates
• Bardo – Comparison Shopping
• Hanson – Welfare Debate
• Nash – Magazine Article Analysis
• Bayer – Genetic Disorders Glogster Project
• Dorame - Junior Theme 2012
• Fox - The Crucible - Motif Project
• Donatucci - African American History Month Project
• McNary - Junior Theme
• Bell - India Project

7. Collaboration
• Hanson – 2-day Research Skills Lesson
• Bardo – Complaint Letters
• Hanson – Service Learning Project
• Strimple – Acting Resumes
• Stovall – 2 booktalks
• Heider – 3 booktalks
• Carts of books taken to the art classrooms for sources of
inspiration
• Lindy Novotny’s student teacher (Carolyn Mullany) for “Found
Objects Sculptures”
• Steve Weiss for “Robot Design”
• Lindy Novotny’s student teacher (Carolyn Mullany) for “Painting
in the Style of Kelinde Wiley”
• Steve Weiss for “Designing Skateboard Decks”

8. Library Statistics

9. Database Statistics (# of searches)

10. Database Statistics (# of searches)

11. Database Statistics (# of searches)