The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement.

Students whose library media specialists played [an instructional] role—either by identifying materials to be used with teacher-planned instructional units or by collaborating with teachers in planning instructional units—tend to achieve higher average test scores.—Lance, Keith Curry, Lynda Welborn, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell. The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement. Colorado Department of Education, State Library and Adult Education Office. Prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research & Improvement Library Programs. September 1992. p. 97.

The full text, 152 page, pdf is available at this link: http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED353989.pdf

Furniture has arrived!

The final delivery of new library furniture has arrived at last!

We are looking for volunteers during the day this Friday, January 28 to help assemble tables and shelves. Power tools are a plus.  If you're not good with power tools, come later in the day to help put books on the shelves.

We will start at 8:00am. 

Hope to see you there!

Study: Teacher-librarians are important to reading enjoyment

The presence of a teacher-librarian was the single strongest predictor of reading enjoyment for both grades 3 and 6 students. Larger schools tended to have higher average reading enjoyment scores, and are also more likely to have teacher-librarians. Schools with teacher-librarians could be expected to have reading enjoyment scores that were 8 percentile points higher than average.

Source: Ontario Library Association, Queen’s University, and People for Education. School Libraries & Student Achievement in Ontario. Toronto: Ontario Library Association, 2006. http://www.accessola.com/data/6/rec_docs/137_eqao_pfe_study_2006.pdf

How many books are we checking out?

November 2010 saw the highest circulation of the year with 3,056 items checked out! That's 764 items per week! "Read widely and wildly" -- Stephanie Harvey.

Welcome to Irving IMC's blog!

Welcome to Irving IMC's new blog! I will be using this blog to keep the Irving community up to date on what is happening in our library. Please let me know of any things you would like to see here.

If you haven't already, please subscribe by email to these updates. It's simple - just input your email address into the Subscribe box on the right side of the website and click subscribe.  You'll get a confirmation email sent to you and after clicking on the link in the email, you'll be all set.

A lot of great things are happening at Irving IMC, blogging is an easy way to spread the word!

Thank you for reading!