Monthly MTAC

Meeting

Library Conference Room

November 8, 2023

Agenda

Welcome &

Departement Updates

Poster Maker

Warranty Renewal

Collection Management:

3-year goals

Nonfiction to Support New and Existing Curriculum

New Chromebook Loaner Policy

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01 Welcome and Department Updates

Welcome and Department Updates

Thank you for joining us again this month! We appreciate you!

Any updates from the departments?

November MTAC Meeting

Poster Maker Warranty Renewal

02 Poster Maker Warranty Renewal

November MTAC Meeting

No official word on average lifespan of machine. Many WCPSS schools have had the same machine and have had it much longer than we have had ours, so we are confident it will last a significant amount of years beyond the warranty.

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Because the poster maker is such a big purchase, we recommend renewing the warranty for the final two years it can be renewed to make sure it is properly maintained to extend the life of the purchase.

1 year: $799

2 year: $1299

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03 Collection Management: 3-Year Goals

November MTAC Meeting

Collection Management: 3-Year Goals

We are proposing the following:

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• Weeding:
• focusing on 500s, 600s, 900s, and Biographies
• critical needs areas for relevancy and accuracy
• 500s-Natural Sciences and Mathmatics
• 600s-Technology (Applied Sciences)
• 900s-Geography and History
• Purchasing:
• align purchasing to check out percentages
• NF(18.53%), Bio(2.08%), FIC(47.68%), GN(21.21%)
• focus non-fiction purchases to 500s, 600s, 900s and Biographies

03 Collection Management: 3-Year Goals

November MTAC Meeting

Collection Management: 3-Year Goals

Weeding

• align purchasing to check out percentages
• focus non-fiction purchases to 500s, 600s, 900s and Biographies

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Purchasing

• Genrefication of Collection-ongoing project. Possible reclassifications for primary genre or visibility/circulation
• Rotating displays to highlight new books or specific collections
• Creation and updating of collections in Destiny Discover for student and teacher use
• Gathering student recommendations and purchasing when possible.
• Reviewing professional recommendations, award winners, top sellers for selection purposes

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Curation

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• focusing on 500s, 600s, 900s, and Biographies
• critical needs areas for relevancy and accuracy
• 500s-Natural Sciences and Mathmatics
• 600s-Technology (Applied Sciences)
• 900s-Geography and History

04 Nonfiction to Support New and Existing Curriculum

November MTAC Meeting

Purchasing New Nonfiction

Focus will be on 500s, 600s, 900s unless departments come to us with needs specific to classes.

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That is where we need your help.

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As your departments discuss needs for resources, please pass those needs along to us.

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We will work to procure nonfiction books as funding and books are available.

04 Nonfiction to Support New and Existing Curriculum

November MTAC Meeting

Sources of Funding?

• Grants
• mostly smaller grants
• not eligible for larger grants (not Title 1)
• Donors Choose
• small grants
• usually under $500
• Foundation/PTO
• yearly grants
• attend meeting to ask for special funding
• EOY funding surplus
• as available, principal discretion

05 Chromebook Loaner Program

November MTAC Meeting

Chromebook Loaner Program

• New Students and students with malfunctioning Chromebooks are having to wait long periods of time for devices

Current Issue

• Daily checkouts of the school Chromebooks for new students or students with malfunctioning CB.
• Must be returned at the end of the day.
• If not returned, student becomes ineligible for future checkouts.
• Students with broken screens or malicious damage not eligible for daily checkout.

Proposal

Want to come to Convergence?

All day on November 28th at the McKimmon Center!

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We are encouraged to bring one MTAC member.

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Your media staff is presenting!