STEPHENSON MIDDLE SCHOOL

MEDIA FACILITY PLAN

by
Arlene H. Dawson
7132-Y01
Administration of the School Library Media
Instructor: Dr. Melissa Allen
Spring 2010
 Table of Contents
 Introduction and Photo tour of Stephenson Middle School (1-15)
 Introduction of Stephenson Middle School Media Center (16-21)
 SMS Media Center Tour (22-36)
 Student Surveys (37-38)
 Teacher Surveys (39-40)
 Media Specialists Surveys(41)
 Facility Use Information (42-46)
 Facility Use Recommendations (47-48)
 Revised Media Center Layout (49)
 Proposed Media Center Revisions (50-60)
 Summary (61)
Stephenson Middle School
 Stephenson Middle School

 Principal: Obelia Hall

 Main Office:678-676-4402 Fax:678-676-4410

Assistant Principal of Instruction and 6th Grade: Tiffany Davidson
Assistant Principal 7th Grade: Robert Wright
 Assistant Principal 8th Grade: Sharon Gex


922 Stephenson Road

Stone Mountain, GA 30087 Information line: 678-676-4400
 Stephenson Middle School


Stephenson Middle School opened its doors in the

fall of 1996 to approximately 1,100 students. Today,
Stephenson Middle School serves a population of
approximately 1,200 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade
students. Stephenson Middle School seeks to provide
an environment of stimulating, rigorous, and
uplifting educational opportunities that extend from
traditional classroom instruction to extracurricular
activities aimed at developing students as well-
rounded individuals.
Stephenson Middle School
•We firmly believe that:

-Students learn best in a positive learning

environment.
-All students can learn.
-It is pivotal for parents, students, and the
community to create responsible learners.
-High expectations promotes high
achievement.
-Students have different learning styles
which necessitate the implementation of
various teaching strategies.
-Learning is a life-long process.
Stephenson Middle School
Our Mission:

The Mission in the

Stephenson Middle School
Community is "Every
Student Will Achieve" to
ensure that the success of
every child is maximized in
a dynamic, nurturing,
learning environment
Stephenson Middle School
Layout of the School Building
Stephenson Middle is located in southeast Dekalb County .
Stephenson Middle School
 Stephenson Middle School
SOCIAL STUDIES ACTIVITIES
EARTH DAY PROJECT
DISPLAY
 Stephenson Middle School
COUNSELING ACTIVITY ATHLETIC TROPHY CASE
Stephenson Middle School
ELA Activities Display
 Stephenson Middle School
GEORGIA PERFORMANCE
STANDARDS DISPLAY
SOCIAL STUDIES FAIR
 Stephenson Middle School Data
#of Students 2009 1136
English Language Learners 1%
Students with Disabilities 8%
NCLB/AYP 2009 Met
Economically Disadvantaged 57%
Non Title I
Student Demographics:
Black 96%
Hispanic 1%
Multi-racial 3%

Information obtained from the Georgia Department of Education:

http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=101&PID=63&PTID=70&SchoolId=5031&T=0&FY=2009
STEPHENSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
Media Specialists:
Ms. Gwen Green
Ms. Dolores Conard
SMS Library Media Center

Mission Statement:
To promote the love
of reading and to
foster life long
learning.
SMS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
INFORMATION
Number of titles and materials
on hand
18, 268
Number of titles
13,209
SMS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
INFORMATION
Number of Patrons
1,590
Active Patrons
1447
 SMS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
INFORMATION
 Discover Your Destiny
 http://destiny.dekalb.k12.ga.us
 Online catalog used my teachers, staff and students.
 Students are able to check their due dates.
 Students can select books based on Lexile scores.
 Teachers can request books and other materials.
 Teachers can request items from the Dekalb Professional
Library.
 Teachers, staff, and students can access from home and
classroom.
SMS Library Media Center
Information
:Other Online Connections through Destiny
•PBs Recommended Books
•GALILEO-virtual library

•KIDS GALILEO-virtual library K-8

•PBS United Streaming-access to audiovisual materials

•Brain POP

•PDS TV 24 on Comcast-educational access TV channel of Dekalb Schools

 SMS Media Center Tour
These are some of the twenty new computers that have installed
into the media center.
Original Media Center Floor Plan

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 SMS Media Center Tour
PROMETHEAN BOARD AND LCD PROJECTOR AND SCREEN IN
PRESENTATION AREA PRESENTATION AREA
 SMS Media Center Tour
AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT AND AUDIO-VISUAL TAPES AND
STORAGE VIDEOS STORAGE
 SMS Media Center Tour
ADDITIONAL AUDIO-VISUAL VIDEO TAPING PRODUCTION
STORAGE AREA
 SMS Media Center Tour
FICTION AND NON FICTION
FICTION BOOK STACKS
BOOK STACKS
 SMS Media Center Tour
CONFERENCE ROOM AND ELL A PEEK INTO THE PERIODICALS
CLASSROOM STORAGE ROOM
 SMS Media Center Tour
Ms. Green helps a patron at the circulation desk. The media specialists’
offices are behind her. Additional tables and chairs are located to her left.
SMS Media Center Tour
Ms. Conard waits for student’s print copy.
 SMS Media Center Tour
This is a view of the book stacks from the front entrance. Popular
paperback titles are located on the front rack on the left.
 SMS Media Center Tour
This is a close-up of the Promethean Board in the presentation area
of the media center.
 SMS Media Center Tour
This is the entrance to the SMS Media Center from
the main hallway at the school.
 SMS Media Center Tour
This is the catalog kiosk. There are four computers located in this area. This front
computer is handicap accessible. Periodical and magazines are on the back wall.
 SMS Media Center Tour
This is a view of the clerestory windows that are on three wall so
the media center.
 SMS Media Center Tour
This is an additional teacher production and storage area that
located behind the circulation desk.
 Student Surveys
• I surveyed 145 students in grades 6,7, and 8.
• 6th grade---------------29 students
• 7th grade---------------89 students
• 8th grade---------------27students
• Special Needs--------19 students
• Gifted------------------64 students
 Student Surveys
• Suggestions
• Consider student suggestions for book selections
• Convertible seating for reading area
• Longer media center hours in the morning and
afternoon
• Student media aides
• Hallway book return
 Teacher Surveys

 Surveyed 33 classroom teachers

 Wireless technology for teachers and students
to use personal computers and eBooks
 Longer morning and afternoon hours to work
on projects and collaborate with media
specialists
 Longer checkouts on LCD projectors, Aver
keys, and other audiovisual equipment
 Teacher surveys continued…
 Computer s on circulation kiosks reduced in
number for use by students
 Use computer lab in room 202 (directly across
the hall from media center) for Promethean
board and LCD presentations
 No limits on number of times a teacher can
check out popular equipment if others are not
using it (1st come/1st served)
 Media specialists Survey
 Reduce the size of the circulation kiosks
 Return of the media clerk position to the media
center
 More parental involvement as volunteers in the
media center
 Explore the use of media aides
 More funds for online software or databases
 Facility Use

 External groups can use the media center for meetings

and presentations as arranged by administrators.
 Check out and return of books and materials from
students, teachers, and staff.
 Media center is opened continuously from 8:20 A.M.
until 4:20 P.M.
 Students can gain access from classes from teachers
through the use of passes.
 Teachers can sign up for whole class instruction and
presentations .
 Teachers can meet and collaborate with media specialists
during planning periods.
 Facility Use
 Black and white print copy available for ten
(10) cents each.
 Color prints available for twenty five(25) cents
per copy.
 No limit on the number of books checked out
by students.
 Fines ten(10) cents per day for overdue books.
 Students restricted from checking out books if
fines are owed.
 Magazines can not be checked out by students.
 Facility Use
 Reference books may be checked out overnight
with media staff approval. Reference books
must be returned the next day by 8:30 A.M.
 Suggestion box is available for new books and
materials.
 Students must pay for damaged and lost books.
 No time limit on checkouts by teachers and
staff. However, staff is encouraged to return
materials as soon as they are finished with
them.
 Facility Use
 All materials must be returned by the end of
the school year.
 Fines do not apply to teachers or staff.
 Teachers and staff must pay for lost or
damaged books and equipment.
 Copy and lamination machine are available for
teacher and staff use.
 Production areas available for teachers and
staff to create class materials.
 Facility Use
 Teacher should sign up for collaboration and
whole class visits at least two days in advance.
 Teachers use schedule book to sign up for
whole class visits, collaboration meetings, and
cart laptop computers.
 Computers –laptops on carts- sign up for only
one cart per class.
 Teachers should remain with their classes
during whole group sessions.
 Facility Use Recommendations
 Expand media center hours from to 7:30A.M.
until 5:30 P.M. to with staggered hours for media
specialists to accommodate change in hours.
 Return media clerk position to media center.
 Bring in parent volunteers to assist with shelving
books and returning materials to storage.
 Establish student media center volunteer group
to assist in the return and checking out of book.
Students could earn volunteer service hours.
 Facility Use Recommendations
 Media Specialist should conduct monthly staff
development on new equipment and other
acquisitions.
 Media specialist, teachers, and students should
film weekly video clip emphasizing new and
recommended books for students to consider
reading via Jag-TV (the student produced
school television broadcast).
 Revised Media Center Layout

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 Revisions to the Media Center
• Install glass door wall to make entry way more attractive and
open the media center up to the school’s main hallway.
• Move the Promethean board and whole class presentations
directly across the hall to room 202 for privacy and less noise
during the day.
• Purchase ergonomically correct seating for the reading area for
comfort and enjoyment of quiet reading time.
• Purchase new dual purpose computer tables that can serve as
computer and regular desk.
• Purchase new book drop for hallway to facilitate on-time book
returns.
 Revisions to the Media Center
• Switch from paper late book notices to e-mail notices to student
individual e-mail accounts through Destiny.
• Tint or coat large clerestory windows to block glare and improve
convenience of operations, appearance, and save energy costs.
• Go wireless to facilitate teacher and student personal computer
use .
Revised Media Center Components
 Use classroom #202 across the hall from the media center as
whole class and presentation area to reduce noise for other
patrons during the day.
 Room 202

Promethean Board

Student
Seating
Revised Media Center Components
The Pearson library lounge chair would be an ideal complement to the media center in the reading
section. It is comfortable and beautiful and engineered to withstand a public environment, yet it
offers comfort and relaxation
.

http://www.brodartfurniture.com/
 Revised Media Center Components
Sliding Glass Doors - Eclipse Std

Replace dark and dreary media entrance doors and walls with glass door system to main hallway to entice patrons into the
library. 13mm gap between door and adjacent glazed modules minimizes risk of trapping fingers. Solid stainless steel
components incorporating roller assembly fitted over exposed surface mounted stainless steel support bar.

http://www.avantisystemsusa.com/doors/sliding-glass-doors.html
Revised Media Center Components
SMART Desk(c)- FLIP IT can be used in the media center and serve
dual purposes of a computer desk and flips down to regular writing
desk as needed. These would be ideal in the a limited space
situation.
 Revised Media Center Components
FLIP-IT DESKS
 By simply pulling out the keyboard/mouse platform, the flip IT®
mechanism opens to offer an LCD monitor, positioned ideally within
your field of view.
 Students maintain an unobstructed line-of-sight to the teacher and
classroom presentations because the flip IT positions the LCD monitor
below the horizon line: ergonomically ideal for the user.
 When a clear work surface is desired for traditional classroom tasks,
grasp the flip IT lid and close it. The keyboard retracts and the LCD
flips under the desktop, secure and out of the way. Locking is available
as an option.
 Like all SMART desks, flip IT desks are designed to conceal and protect
all the wires that are the source of the cable clutter that seems to haunt
most computer labs.
 These can also be used in the presentation room #202.
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Revised Media Center Components
 Help students return books on time!
 M700-Interior for 100 Books A heavy
gauge stainless steel cabinet is 16 x 23
x 43 inches high with laminate top and
stainless steel protectors fastened to
each corner, spring-loaded receiving
platform with padded flooring and
Lifetime Warranty. All brass works
registered locks installed on lower
access door panel. Laminate top colors:
Red, Black, Gray, or Navy. American
Book Returns are made of high quality
brushed stainless steel, which by their
nature do not require anti-graffiti
coating.
 http://bookdrops.com/index.php/walk-up-
drive-up-service/m700-interior-for-100-
books.html
Revised Media Center Components
 Do away with late notices  E-mail due dates and fine
and fine notices. amounts directly to students
through their personal e-
mail accounts and Destiny.
Revised Media Center Components

Solis Window Coating-Virtually

Clear
 Remove the blinds covering the
media center’s clerestory
windows and coat the windows
with a polymer coating to save
money; improve appearance;
protect books, materials, and
furnishings; and enjoy the
convenience of not having to
raise and lower dusty window
blinds.
 http://www.corpenergy.com/coatings/index.htmraise
Revised Media Center Components
D-LINK MANAGED 24-PORT GIGABIT L2+
GO WIRELESS IN THE MEDIA CENTER. PATRONS
CAN USE MORE LAPTOPS AND E-BOOKS.
UNIFIED WIRELESS POE SWITCH, 4
COMBO SFP, MODEL: DWS-3024. DS-DH
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provides an innovative evolution in wireless LAN.
Complex installations, intricate management utilities and
limited scalability had previously made network
administrators hesitant to deploy facility-wide wireless
LAN. Now, D-Link Unified Wired/Wireless Switching
architecture simplifies installation. In addition, access
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include IT integrators, network administrators, business
end-users, government organizations, schools, hospitals,
and hotspots such as convention halls, hotels and airports.

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 Mixed Wired Device/Wireless AP Connection From Any
Port
 Expandable to 4 Peer Switches
 802.3af Power Over Ethernet Simplifies AP Installation
 Redundant Power Supply Support Maximizes Network
Uptime
 http://www.directron.com/dws3024.html
 SMS Media Center Summary
The Stephenson Middle School Media Center is a wonderful place.
My students and I enjoy visiting the media center. It is one of the most
beautiful rooms in our school building with its large open sunny spaces.
I had a reality check when I noticed the date in which the school was
built. I think of our facility as a new facility because it is still quite
spacious and has room for additional growth. The existing layout works
well for the school at this time.
I had give a great deal of thought to what I would try to improve.
My revised layout and revision list is strictly to enhance what we have
and try to foresee future needs.