The Oak Park and River Forest High School Library monthly report for January 2011 highlights positive student and teacher feedback, new displays created, and collaborations between librarians and teachers on projects and resource lists. Statistics on library, database, and study hall usage are also included.

1. Oak Park and River Forest High School Library January 2011 Monthly Report

2. Highlights You are a great research librarian and school resource! –Joseph J. Kostal Playaways made available to students Teacher quote:

3. Highlights Fantasy display Award winners display

4. Highlights Folk art display Created resource lists for physics, biology, and chemistry

5. Highlights Ann Carlson served as a judge for the MLK essay writing contest. Participated in a bullying webinar on 1/25/11.

6. Examples of Collaboration Online pathfinder made for all the following: Novotny – 20th c. decades art Burns and Limburg – “The south won” debate Bayer – Cancer project (books also gathered) Strimple – Monologue selection (scripts organized by genre) Hanson – Education debates (books also gathered) Rubinow – Help finding extra credit science articles Hennings – Web 2.0 instruction for AP Bio review Spilotro – Glogster project Spilotro – Xtranormal project Stovall – Persuasive papers Lombardo – Xtranormal project Walter – Things Fall Apart – Cultural project McNary – Jr. theme

7. Collaboration Organized plays by genre for Ms. Strimple’s acting class and helped them find scenes for their final project Collaborated with the TLC team at an academic technology meeting to find the best ways to support student learning with technology Gave two book talks geared toward junior theme to Ms. Stovall’s classes Gave two book talks to Mr. Coughlin’s classes Continued Old World Encounters Research Project with Mr. Goldberg, Ms. O’Keefe, and Mr. Maloney Ms. Dobias’s history class researched the Civil War – pulled a selection of books for students

8. January Statistics(Library study hall closed 1st two days of second semester.)

9. January database statistics

10. January Database Statistics