Blog # 8

I have not participated in any type o library instruction at all. But I do remember I do a volunteer work at the library and one of my teachers asks me to provide instruction in the media center. The media center has books, DVD’s, and TV. In orientation I explain what they can on books, cds, DVDs, and newspaper.  You can spread words out by giving out flyers, social net, and word of mouths.  I work in the counseling office and I interact with a lot of students daily. It will be really helpful for the students to know that they can access materials and information. Some students rather use Internet search engine to search about people and information that require them to do an assignment. It is fast and easy because you don’t have to type in all this information just to get to the online databases. I feel that the librarian need to give out more workshops and also posting flyer around the campus to let the students aware of what is going on .
The librarian should provide information on the library home page, which way the students will know what is happening at the campus. Most of the students are not aware of what happening at the campus because there is no flyers, not even any enough any information provide. So the students don’t know what is being offer at the college. The library has a lot to offer to the students if we would just take our time to offer workshops. Some students might not know if there is a media center at the library.  I feel students should know how to find most information on the computer because everything is being provided if we should just take the time to explore the option of using the library computers. Enter the information into the computer is very easy, but when trying to find the books on the shelves it make it harder for the patrons to search for.

I think the library should have workshop once a week, have accessible materials available online to the patrons.

Project # 2

Project 2: Proposal to create Reference Library

I am proposing to build an elementary school library at Mary Butler in Long Beach, CA

This school. Mary Butler Elementary School is located in Long Beach, CA and is one of 96 schools in Long Beach Unified School District. It is a public school that serves 619 students in grades K-8. As of 2011, Mary Butler Elementary School performance rating is 3 out of 10 test rating. Mary Butler Elementary School's 2011 base score was 651 and the school did meet its 2011 school-wide growth target. Students Enrollment (2010) Total: 619 47% 52%

Student Economic Level (2010)

In 2010, Mary Butler Elementary School had 92% of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch programs. California had 52% of eligible students for free or reduced price lunch programs. Eligibility for the National School Lunch Program is based on family income levels.

Student Ethnicity (2010)

Hispanic: 50%

Asian/Pacific Islander: 30%

Black: 17%

White: 1 %
Butler Middle 1400 East 20th St., Long Beach, 90806 (Schools in Long Beach) ENROLLMENT: 632

STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO 23:1

UNOFFICIAL API RANK 2/10

DIVERSITY RANK 8/10

• Enrollment: 632 students
• Free and reduced-price lunch: 95.9%
• English language learners: 0.3%
• Diversity rank: 8/10
• http://lbbutler.schoolloop.com/?vm=r&s=1

Population Growth: Population in Long Beach stayed

Roughly constant at 462,000 over the past ten years. The

Hispanic population increased by more than 23,000 (14%),

While the white, non-Hispanic population declined by 17,000

(-11%). The black population also decreased by 7,000 (-10%).

Diversity: The racial and ethnic composition of Long Beach

Has shifted over the past ten years with the Hispanic share

Increasing from 36% to 41% and the white, non-Hispanic

Share falling from 33% to 29%.

Age Structure: Long Beach is slightly younger than California overall, with a median

Age of 33, up from 31 in 2000 yet still lower than the state median of 35 years old. The

Rise in median age is due to a decrease in the number of young people, whose share of

Population declined from 32% to 28% of total. The share of population age 65+ stayed

Constant at 9% of total, compared with 11% statewide.

Households: Long Beach has a much smaller share of family households, at 61%, than

The statewide rate of 69%, and a much larger share of single-person households (28%)

Than the state (23%). Among people age 65+, 29% live alone, slightly higher than the

Statewide rate of 25%.

Education: Educational attainment in Long Beach is slightly lower than California

Rates: 28% of the adult population holds Bachelor’s degrees or higher compared with a

California average of 30%, and 22% of adults have not completed high school,

Compared with 20% statewide. http://www.library.ca.gov/lds/demographicprofiles/docs-jurisdiction/Long%20Beach%20Public%20Library%20DP2010.pdf?vm=r&s=1

Key Indicators

2000 2010

Population Growth

Total population 461,522 462,257

10-year growth 7.5% 0.2%

Diversity

% Hispanic 35.8% 40.8%

% Asian, non-Hispanic 11.9% 12.6%

% White, non-Hispanic 33.1% 29.4%

% Black, non-Hispanic 14.5% 13.0%

Aging

% 65+ 9.1% 9.3%

Median age 30.8 33.2

Households

% Married couples with children 22.0% 18.9%

% Living alone 29.5

The field house was found to have many structural and architectural

Building a library at this school has the potential of educating and changing many lives for the better. http://www.city-data.com/city/Long-Beach-California.html?vm=r&s=1

LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY (Operating income: $15,229,695; Location: 101 PACIFIC AVE.; 927,580 books; 22 e-books; 29,880 audio materials; 26,301 video materials; 1 local licensed databases; 49 other licensed databases; 1,310 print serial subscriptions; 1,700 electronic serial subscriptions) Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Long-Beach-California.html?vm=r&s=1#ixzz1qoCd1L8P

There are currently 12 libraries located within 10 miles of Mary Butler Elementary School and 1 of them is within 2 miles. However, it is not always possible for an elementary student to travel that distance to visit a library. The closest library is the Signal Hill Library in the city of Signal Hill, CA

Library Center is the main library in Long Beach, CA. This is a full-service library but is located over 5 miles from the school. It offers a media center; children’s library; general information services; business, science and technology; government publications; visual and performing arts; special collections; exhibits; a talking book center; and more http://www.lbpl.org/?vm=r&s=1These are the things that would be important to access in a school library.

 My school library would included
 Programs
The Family Learning Center provides homework assistance for students in grades K - 8. Parents are encouraged to use the library with their children. The center is staffed with homework helpers to provide help with homework assignments and computer instruction.

The Main Library offers story times, events, and programs.

Facilities

Meeting room, auditorium and auditorium lobbies are available for rent. Book drops are located on the walls of the library east of the main entrance, on the walkway between the Library and City Hall, and on Ocean Blvd (drive-up).

Equipment/Technology

Computers: The Main Library offers computers with internet access, Microsoft Office, various databases, and the library catalog. A library card is needed to use the library computers, except for the catalog-only computers. Access is on a first come basis and is limited to 2 hours per day.

Wireless: The Main Library offers free wireless internet access throughout the library. A valid library card is required.

Printers and photocopiers: Public printers and photocopiers are available. Black and white copies are $.5 per page; Color copies are $.25 per page.

Typewriter: A self-serve typewriter is available free of charge

 The most popular electronic resources at Long Beach Main Public Library are the DVDs and e-books. Patrons come into the library to check out the new DVD releases while patrons at home would use the online catalog to research e-books provided. To check out DVDs, there is a price for certain days and the amount changes depending on how new the DVD is. The reference area of the library is placed smack dab in the middle of the top floor of this two stories high library building. The reference area is quite large full of book cases and a circular desk/bookcase where the reference librarians would sit and offer help. The book cases are back to back full of different reference books It would include a younger reference area for the students in Pre-K through 8^th  grade with picture dictionaries and encyclopedias. There would be a reference section with bilingual dictionaries, almanacs, yearbooks, and encyclopedias. There would be tutors available to help students after school each day. There would be electronic reference sources available such as ERIC, World Fact book, ProQuest, Fed Stats, Facts on File, Bartley, Enclopaedia, and  Info Please. I would have my staffs monitored social networking and blogging. This site is not age appropriate for the younger students. My school library does not have to be very big; it just has to have dedicated staff and students to fulfill Mary Butler Elementary School’s vision of success.

BLOG # 6

Some time I do feel very upset and frustrated regarding the homework assignments and project that pertaining to LIB204 class. Most of all I enjoy reading my classmates responds to my blogs and they really give me a good feedback to my blogs.   Having learning different resources in the past weeks, I feel that using Google research is not a reliable source or can be trustworthy.  It can be overwhelm and crazy sometime because I keep learning new things each week. This week homework is kind of overwhelmed because I have to do more research then I usual.  Last week assignment Google Finance was very difficult to me because I don’t have the knowledge of finances.  Searching for annual income and other stuff, I was lost and just keep on clicking different links to find the information I was searching for.  By taking this class, I have learn different resource for my research .

Blog Reflection # 5

If I was to use Google to search for statistics or country profile. I don’t think I can found any resources we have used.  When you use Google to search for topics, it brings up a lot of results and you have to narrow it down. Although for me, I just pick the first result that sound interesting. I feel that some student used internet to do a research because it fast and quick and we don’t have time to sit and read through all article. We sometime don’t seem to care if the source is reliable or not as long we get the answered we need. Majority of the source provide different answered.   Information is everywhere on the Internet, existing in large quantities and continuously being created and revised. This information exists in a large variety of kinds (facts, opinions, stories, interpretations, and statistics) and is created for many purposes (to inform, to persuade, to sell, to present a viewpoint, and to create or change an attitude or belief). For each of these various kinds and purposes, information exists on many levels of quality and reliability. For the past few week of our discussion, we have talk about evaluating resources. I Google search on Evaluating Internet Research Sources and it is from http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm. They were small advertising in the middle of the page and bottom of the page.

The information on this website was published for educating purpose use and how to determine the credibility and accuracy of a website. On the top left hand corner it provide author name, version date and perversion date. The end of the information it provides a little detail about the author of the website. The author of this site provided information on criteria, techniques, and objectivity for evaluating websites.

Blog Reflection # 4

If I was managing a Library with $ 20,000.00 budget, I would spend 65% on electronic references and 35% on print references.  I feel that print resources have become obsolete due to electronic resource.  In my opinion 5 years from now, I don’t see a lot of print resource will be use by patrons. I personally rather use electronic resource because it is quick. Traditionally reference materials have been print dominated.  However, since the introduction of computer technologies and the internet, there has been a growing shift towards electronic based reference materials. I have noticed the change in types of reference materials from my high school education up to this point. I was introduced to electronic reference materials such as Encarta (the computer disk encyclopedia).  Only a few years later and I had access to the internet and could find a wealth of reference materials online.  Now I predominantly use electronic references materials.  For university courses and lesson planning I rely primarily on electronic sources.  However, I still use print based resources on occasion and ensure that I maintain the ability recognize when to use the different types of reference materials.

We must work with students to ensure that they get the most out of the web and electronic references.  I do not believe that supporting print references is a losing battle.  While electronic reference materials do offer advantages with regards to accessibility, speed and currency, they are not the be all and end all of references. Furthermore, the amount of content can be overwhelming.  So overwhelming in fact, those students may not have the skills to pick out the information which is relevant to them.  Due to their problems and shortcomings, it is important to promote print based references.  Students will always need to know how to read and print based materials will ensure that reading happens.  Also, print based materials provide a better focus as well as ensuring authenticity.  While print references need to be supported and promoted, our library needs to balance instruction with both print and electronic references.  As students become more technologically savvy and dependent they will want to rely more on electronic references. We must also teach them the skills patrons need to use both electronic and print resources effectively and efficiently. If the necessary information skills (referencing) are taught, students will be able to find information in reference materials regardless of content.

Project 1

Searching on the Reference source from the Internet Public Library website I found four reference websites are: Grammars, Association and Organizations, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries.
Grammars:  The Tongue United URL is http://www.grammarunited.com/ . This site is sponsored by Dreaming toward Home Webmaster in 2008.  This site provides instruction in basic grammar, sentence structure, word choice, and punctuation.  This site is educational and educating students for writing assignments.  This website is gaining profit from the site by selling a 10 week curriculum for $15 and also you can get the entire Tongue United 10-week curriculum in an easy –to read PDF.  The purpose of the reference website is to help students with homework in English and writing English paper.  The value to this reference websites is to bring students to a writing workshop and learning tools for writing a good paper and it can be used in an academic environment.  You can search the reference sources by selecting the following items, Topic, Quizzes, Blog, Writing Workshops, and 10 week curriculum.  Under Topics you can search Adverbs, Adjectives, Agreement, Case, Conjunctions, Clause Verbs, Punctuations, and etc.  You can test your knowledge skills on this site by clicking using the Quizzes and Writing Workshops section of this website. You can get some freely available information, but if you want full access you going to have to pay a charge of $15.  These sites give you good reference tool on how to write an English paper. From a scale of 1-10, I would give it a 6 and half because the sites charge for information and I think it should be free.  The Dreaming toward Home site was last updated in 2008 according to the site. The site seems to be credible even though the information was last update a few years ago. I would suggest the sites be updating it and if they want to charge for the information. Since the sites has not been updated for a few years. I feel it should be free for the public to use it.

Association and Organizations:  Idealist; URL are http://www.idealist.org . This website is sponsored by a nonprofit organization. A searchable directory of nearly 50,000 nonprofit organizations in over 160 countries. Individuals can find jobs, volunteer opportunities, internships, programs, campaigns, and events. Nonprofit and community-based organizations can find consultants, freelancers, and other resources. Available in English, Spanish, and French. The Idealist site brings value to anyone who is looking for information regarding jobs and different types of opportunities. .  The website is gaining profit by posting your own organization or information to their site. They also funded by Donations, Earned Income, and Grants.   The Idealist site is a commercial because it allowed you to post your own organization information to their websites. The site does not really educate students but they share information to the public through a non-government portal.  The purpose of this website is to provide information for people seeking opportunities such as jobs and internships.  It also help the organizations post those opportunities to their sites as well.  In the what area: You can also used the keywords such as, name, interests, or skills and for the Where area: you can type location such as city, state, country, or postal code. You can research the reference source by using the subject search method.   The information is organized by the subjects broken up into categories such as, jobs, organizations, volunteer opportunities, internship, events, programs, resources, and people. And you can also click on the Areas of focus as well. You can search by All, Education, Volunteering, Environment, Arts, and Rural.  The information is available to the public for free. From the scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 9 because sites help people post their organizations and finding jobs.  The sites are up to date because on the bottom of the page it says 2012.  I would not change anything to this site, because it provides all the details that the public need.

Encyclopedia: http://www.encyclopedia.com/. This website is sponsored by HighBeam Research, Inc. Free access to reference works such as The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford's World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography and many others. Contains free citations and excerpts to periodical articles. Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.  The website gaining profits by you have to pay money to read full text of articles. The Highbeam site sharing information to the public through a governmental portal. The sites brings value to students by helping students get a better ideas of how to use Encyclopedias online and it can be used in an academic environment .Encyclopedia.com is an ideal online reference source for researchers, students, educators, and professionals alike. The information is organized by the subjects broken up into categories such as, Socialized medicine, Afghanistan, global warming, immigration, French Revolution, United Nations, Federal Reserve System, Food Adulteration, and Tiananmen Square. The sites organized by articles, pictures, facts, and biographies along with information about topics like the arts, science, sports, medicine, accounting, and management. The information is freely available to the public, but you have to purchase to view additional content. From the scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 10 because the site provides current and archived articles from more than 6,500 credible reference works and publications, including newspapers, journals, and magazines. This article archive search is perfect for students looking for homework help, educators wanting to keep up with current information, and businesspeople looking to gain an edge. The site is credible and provides accurate information. I wouldn't do anything to change what is on this site

Dictionaries. Its URL is http://dictionary.reference.com/.   The website sponsored by Dictionary .com, LLC. Dictionary.com is the best general English-language dictionary online. Its simple search form hides a sophisticated multi-source search of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Word Net, The Free Online Dictionary of Computing, Jargon File, The Elements, Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, and U.S. Gazetteer. This site provides reliable, free online access to millions of English definitions, synonyms, spelling, and audio pronunciations. This site is a good resource for anyone to use. This site is an educational site. On the homepage it has advertisements and maybe that is how the site gains profits. Dictionary.com provides a good educational tool for students. You can get help on these sites with looking up words and meaning. It can be used in an academic environment.  On the home page you may search items such as, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Word Dynamo, Quotes, Reference, Translator, and Spanish.  If you want to search for famous people click on Quotes and it bring up Top Author and Topic subjects. Word Dynamo provides you free study guides, quizzes and games as well. Also, under Word Dynamo it gives you Grade levels, Standardized Tests, Academic Subjects, and Languages. The information is freely available to the public to use. On a scale from 1-10, I would say a 10 because it provides useful information for Adults and school age. The site is credible and provides accurate information. I wouldn't do anything to change what is on this site.

Reflection Blog # 3

For this week I have learn a lot. Our professor gives us options to do a search topic of your choice using variety websites.  I feel it is very interesting utilizing other sites beside our favorite search engines for example like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. I feel after doing a search on our topic using different sites, I prefer to use Worldcat.org because it is fast and simple. You don’t have to go to different pages to look for anything. With Worldcat.org site , it takes you straight to the main page and you just typed in the keyword that you are searching for and it give you all this results and you can narrow it down from format to years. I usually go to Yahoo and Google to get a quick search for my answered.  Most of us would just go straight to the computer and go to our favorite sites such as Bing, Yahoo, Wekepida, and Google for our results. We should not believe what the internet gives us because sometime the answered is not correct.   

I feel that today society made it easy for us just to have access to the computer. Since we have access to the technology now and day. We don’t take our time to do our research; we just go straight to our favorite sites and start typing our finger away. That is our main problem today.  Some of the information that we are getting from the internet is not fully accurate but we still using it any way. It is quick and easy.  How can we break our habit? I don’t think we can ever break our habit using search engine.  Teacher should recommend student to go to a workshop to get a better understanding about using different sources of search.