School library media candidates administer the library media program in order to support the mission of the school, and according to the principles of best practice in library science and program administration.

Evidence: Order Objectives and Rationale ; Book List ; Presentation

    Summary

  • Based upon the goals, objectives, and needs of a school's library media program, resources were chosen, a purchase order was created, and a plan for processing the materials was devised.

    Reflection

  • This project was extremely beneficial and relevant to real life as a school's media specialist.  I was able to learn and navigate through Follett's Titlewave program as this project developed.  I also learned that it's important to consider the entire school population and its needs when planning how to wisely used the money budgeted for this purpose.

    Self-Assessment

  • Discovering titles for the purpose of adding to a media center's collection is hard work, whether you are a media specialist or not!  It's difficult to look for reviews of books instead of actually having the book to look at yourself.  I will definitely set up a consideration file to make it easier to order titles for my own media center's collection.  During this project, I don't think I researched titles of books well enough simply because I ran out of time.  That's why it will be important for me to rely on the knowledge of colleagues as well as reviews and my consideration file when deciding on resources to purchase.

Evidence: PDEP

     Summary

  • The Program Development and Evaluation Plan is an instrument utilized to help the media specialist focus on the needs of the media center. An effective plan is the foundation of the school's library media center covering the management policies, procedures, and principles of the media center as well as ALA and AASL standards.

    Reflection

  • My focus for this project was to find and formulate the legal and ethical aspects of the PDEP, as well as devise long and short term goals and objectives based upon the needs of the media center. I have become better acquainted with the inner workings of the media center, as well as developing an awareness of how important it is to have sound policies in place to protect the media specialist and media center if problems arise.

    Self Assessment

  • This was definitely one of the longest, but most essential, assignments I have completed during my time at the University of Georgia.  I've come to appreciate the amount of time, thought, and effort that goes into running a school library and the vast amount of knowledge needed by the media specialist to do this.  I know that I am just at the beginning of my journey into school library media and I will be relying heavily on documents such as the PDEP to guide me through this career.