Your librarian: Ginger Kirchmyer
Contact: [email protected]
Position Description: Ms. K is responsible planning and implementing programs to highlight new books and books of interest in order to encourage enthusiastic readers. Additionally, she selects and purchases materials including books, online resources, technology, and assorted media for teachers and students to enable them to be skillful researchers and critical thinkers. Ms. K also manages Atriuum (the online information system for our library collection) as well as the SMMHS Library website, creates tutorials, podcasts, screencasts, and other resources for personal, online instruction; additionally she attends school and district meetings, holds staff trainings, and individually collaborates with teachers, district librarians, and administration in an effort to support classroom instruction, enabling all patrons to be informed and ethical users of information. She publishes a monthly newsletter, tweets, and keeps up a Pinterest page in an effort to stay in touch with the school community. It is also the librarian's responsibility to oversee the media center budget, determine policies and procedures which help to maintain a welcoming, organized, and useful physical space for the school community. Ms. Kirchmyer also trains and supervises all the library aides and manages the volunteers who contribute to the successful operation of this facility. The SMMHS librarian also teaches 2 sections of Senior Project and serves as the Senior Project Coordinator for the school. She is responsible for all daily lessons, grading, parent communication, and typical responsibilities that go along with overseeing a classroom.
Position Description: Ms. K is responsible planning and implementing programs to highlight new books and books of interest in order to encourage enthusiastic readers. Additionally, she selects and purchases materials including books, online resources, technology, and assorted media for teachers and students to enable them to be skillful researchers and critical thinkers. Ms. K also manages Atriuum (the online information system for our library collection) as well as the SMMHS Library website, creates tutorials, podcasts, screencasts, and other resources for personal, online instruction; additionally she attends school and district meetings, holds staff trainings, and individually collaborates with teachers, district librarians, and administration in an effort to support classroom instruction, enabling all patrons to be informed and ethical users of information. She publishes a monthly newsletter, tweets, and keeps up a Pinterest page in an effort to stay in touch with the school community. It is also the librarian's responsibility to oversee the media center budget, determine policies and procedures which help to maintain a welcoming, organized, and useful physical space for the school community. Ms. Kirchmyer also trains and supervises all the library aides and manages the volunteers who contribute to the successful operation of this facility. The SMMHS librarian also teaches 2 sections of Senior Project and serves as the Senior Project Coordinator for the school. She is responsible for all daily lessons, grading, parent communication, and typical responsibilities that go along with overseeing a classroom.
the SMMhs library aides
SMMHS Juniors and Seniors who have maintained a 3.0 GPA are eligible to be selected to serve as a library aide. The primary responsibility of the student library aide is to welcome all patrons and assist them with their library needs. This can range anywhere from book check-out and shelving to printing, copying, computer trouble-shooting, advising and recommending book selection, and helping students find available resources like staplers, hole punchers, etc... On top of these responsibilities, these incredible people also complete a myriad of chores which make our library operate like a well-oiled machine. These tasks include running, cutting, and delivering lamination for teachers, sorting a plethora of paperwork, creating Directed Studies passes each week for Ms. K, hanging artwork and other student work for display in the library, running errands, filling copiers and printers with paper, cleaning computers to make them operate faster, setting up displays, decorating bulletin boards, maintaining a neat, clean atmosphere, creating slideshows for the website, moving furniture to prepare for activities in the library, managing the recycling, keeping up with the student wish-list for book orders, and answer the phone - all with a smile! These guys are amazing, and maybe one day, if you keep up with your grades, you can become one of the elite...the chosen... the LIBRARY AIDES!
our beautiful, wonderful volunteers
This year SMMHS has been fortunate enough to have approximately 20 parents who volunteer on a regular basis in our library. These volunteers typically come for 2 hour weekly or bi-weekly shifts. Each of them bring a unique skill-set, so assignments vary among them based on their interests and backgrounds, and all of their talents are being utilized in ways that make happy workers (because happy workers come back and work again!). :) Some examples of how they have contributed to our library include setting up and tearing down for special events like Book Fair, processing inventory (assigning barcodes and spine labels), repairing books, affixing protective covers on new books, back-end management of Atriuum (inputing student pictures, changing erroneous book information, investigating computer issues as they arise, etc...), sorting through donated titles in order to determine appropriateness for our library, maintaining organizational systems in storage areas, weeding the collection and running inventory, trouble-shooting and maintenance of electronics, grant research and application help, assistance in supervision of students, reorganization of the collection when necessary, keeping up the main library bulletin board and other visuals and decor associated with programming (like wrapping books for Blind Date with a Book or creating signage for the library), investigating products or services that are under consideration for purchase and reporting their findings, making phone calls on behalf of the library when necessary, creating schedules for class visitations, maintaining records for lamination, butcher paper, poster maker, etc.... The presence of these incredible people allows for a flexible schedule in our library, enabling classes and individual students to come on an as-needed basis.
collaboration
Collaboration can take many forms, and Ms. Kirchmyer is committed to being available to teachers, students, and administrators in an effort to enhance the educational experience for all students at SMMHS. Specifically, Ms. K can collaborate in a couple of ways. See the descriptions below to learn more about how we can work together to meet your needs:
Group Teaching
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one-on-one
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tutorialsWhen I learn that there are common "issues" to which school members need answers, I will often be able to create a quick, short tutorial. The purpose of tutorials is to enable students, teachers, parents, administration, or school community members to watch and learn at their convenience. Some tutorials I have already created are:
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