LLC: Effective Practice Guide

Things you should include when building the Library Learning Commons schedule:

• You need to include your prep time. It's contractual. This is prep for your teaching.
• Collaboration time. This is where you work with teachers to support
  • Inquiry
  • Maker
  • Projects
• LLC Administrative time - You need about an hour a week (pro-rated to your amount of assigned library time) of uninterrupted time a week to deal with:
  • Resource ordering
  • Website building
  • Visioning

Other things to consider:

• Are you the prep teacher? If so you should work with your principal and teachers to build a prep schedule that addresses the needs of the staff and you
• Book exchanges - How do you maximize teaching time and the need to give readers advisory during book exchange?
• Do you have other hats? How do you build around them? Can you incorporate them into the library?

Without a doubt library clerks are the lifelines of the Library Learning Commons.

Responsibilities might include:

• Book exchanges (discharging, renewing, and checking out all books)
• Shelving and maintaining collection organization/appearance
• Receiving new books (checking off list, stamping, taping, adding genre stickers)
• Shipping new books (stamping, boxing and sending to DLC for cataloging)
• Book repairs
• Bulletin Boards
• Inventory
• Weeding **TL has final say on Discards, but Clerk often assist in finding the resources that need to be removed**
• Creating Bills for lost or damaged books
• Receipts for lost or damaged book payments
• Supplies collection
• Organization of Purchase Orders
• Pulling books for classroom teachers or LLC displays
• Creating student book marks
• And any other assistance you may need.