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Yearly Media Survey 2002/2003 Percentages and response from Media Services in red. 1. How would you rate the cataloging of AV items? a. excellent job 26 70% Total satisfactory responses 95% b. OK 9 25% c. poor 2   5% comments - Software processing is very slow. We changed many videos from E to NF. Remember we don't have E collection at middle school. Great job, just way too slow. Can we hire more help? 2. How would you rate the cataloging and processing of books? a. excellent job 22 69% Total satisfactory responses 100% b. OK 10 31% c. poor 0 comments - Very slow. A few processing glitches, but great. Great job, just way too slow. Can we hire more help? 3. Have you used the online handbook this year? a. yes 33  b. no 3 Suggestions to improve - Can't improve perfection. 92% have used the handbook this year Can't think of anything Being new, I've used it a lot. Navigating the SBAC home page is confusing; Haven't used it much but it's a great idea and resource. The search engine doesn't seem very comprehensive. Easy to use. I've found what I need. Don't use it. Can we find a quicker way to get to it. If you're in Dynix you have to minimize, open Netscape and go through 6 steps plus scrolling on each screen. There are times when this seems tedious. Just bookmark the page in Netscape to reduce steps. 4. Rate the service you have received this year from the following jobbers. Follett - a.pretty good 27, b. usually OK 1, c. poor Baker and Taylor - a. pretty good 10, b. usually OK 7, c. poor 1 Barnes and Noble - a.pretty good 8, b. usually OK 3, c. poor Books a Million - a. pretty good 5, b. usually OK 2, c. poor 3 Southeast Library Bindery - a. pretty good 8, b. usually OK 3, c. poor Brodart - a.pretty good 3, b. usually OK, c. poor Permabound - a.pretty good 8, b. usually OK 2, c. poor Dalton Booksellers - a.pretty good, b. usually OK, c. poor Borders - a.pretty good 6, b. usually OK 2, c. poor Comments - The Follett people have tried really hard to be helpful. Follett's web site is excellent. Follett has been great. Recieving books from Follett already processed has been great. Follett is excellent. I love Follett's putting spine labels on the books! Had great success with all jobbers this year. Great service online. I love using the Follett web site to order books. It had mad the whole process so much easier. I like being able to choose a binding and also being able to choose a binding and also being able to print out a list with AR books. Better fill rate from B&T than usual. B&T has gotten much better is supplying books in a timely manner. I love Follett's Titlewave. Follett Titlewave program is wonderful, great service from Follett. Follett is more than pretty good, they're awesome! I love Follett's Titlewave, it saves me so much time. Follett has a very navigable online system. Follett had an overwhelmingly more positive response than other vendors. Many people tried them and really liked them. 5. Do you see having multiple book jobbers as being an advantage? a. yes 33 b. no 0 100% see this as an advantage Comments Got more attention from Baker and Taylor this year. They are hungry. 6. Has the media supervisor been helpful when you asked for assistance? a. yes 37 , b. no 0 100% positive response Comments We are so fortunate to have you. Always helpful and friendly, patient and tolerant. Responds quickly and is very helpful! Very responsive. I appreciate that! The media supervisor has responded in a helpful and timely manner to our concerns. Mrs. Case makes our job so much easier and is an authoritative resource. Always very helpful and supportive!! Thanks. I have not need to ask for help, but I know she would respond positively if I did ask. Always helpful with and open door policy. Nancy is always prompt about responding to every question. Response is always prompt, helpful and informative. Thanks so much! Always available and with answers. Barbara is great also. Nancy is wonderful. She has helped me in so many ways especially when I have an emergency. I appreciate not having to call or e-mail twice. She always follows up. Always positive and responsive. Always ready to help, thanks. All my questions, and I've had plenty, were immediately answered or referred to the appropriate person. Always gets right back to me and solves my problems. Always available and helpful. Thank you , Nancy   7. What inservice opportunities would you like for next year? I-Movie - 3     I-Movie inservice already planned. Web design for media centers - 2 Best Practices- 2 Technology training - 2 TV production - 2 Training on Dynix for media aide - 2 Specific equipment repair and maintenance 2 Digital video camcorders 4 Digital cameras 3 Digital cameras for beginners 1 Using equipment such as data projectors 2 Specifications for digital studios Media center operations for media aides Book repair training. Demonstration/display of high interest/very low reading level book for middle school/ 2nd grade Basic Windows classes Offered by TLC Troubleshooting computers Offered by TLC Upgrading news equipment to digital Computer applications Offered by TLC Palm pilot Music composing software Non-copyright music Inservice on special techniques, equipment and materials to use with multi age pecial needs students. Universal workstation Microsoft XP 2  Offered by TLC More AR inservices Reading Renaissance librarian from AR G4 Mac Laptops Favorite research web sites, show them and what's good about them Grant writing Puppets, storytelling, flannel board Carolyn feller Bauer gives excellent storytelling workshops Reading promotions that work Book selection strategies We will definitely cover all areas where two or more requests were made. Many of the other topics will also be incorporated into our regular media updates. 8. Is there anything you would like the media supervisor to do for you that is not now being done? Can't think of anything. Expand our budgets. Promote e-library, it is easy to forget it is available. Encourage Director of Curriculum Development, (Annusavice), to get involved in media activities. We understand this person is our supervisor, yet we haven't seen her in any function of media specialists. Why the lack of communication? Does she have no interest in our activities? Jim used to be actively involved. Media Services will let Sandi know that you would like to see her at media functions. Can't think of anything new. Keep up the great work! More opportunities to compete and attend conferences for TV production. No, I think she has covered all bases. Give more notice on e-mail before meetings. We can do this. All is OK. No, Nancy is doing a wonderful job. Keep doing the same good job - Perhaps you could make up and give us a copy of the school based survey you want us to do. There is one in the handbook. Can't think of anything, but Nancy is so receptive I feel confident in asking for help if I need it. Is it possible to have bibliographies of highly reviewed new books to purchase on the web site? I think we should share our really good finds and put them into an online bibliography. We are going to be offering Hornbook Online which is an online book selection tool. I can't think of anything. Nancy is splendidly proactive. Establish better protocols for the vendors regarding records development so that our books can go on the shelf not to Sivia. If we have Follett do all our custom changes it will take as long for them to do them as it does for us to do them and I would think that they would not be as conscientious as out staff is about getting them right. 9. Is there anything you would like us to order, either for the professional library or for the film library? Start ordering DVD's and weed some of the videos from the 1980's. We will do a major weed this summer and we have already starting ordering DVD's. Internet and electronic research skills for very young students. Media literacy at a very low level - such as identifying ad techniques. Nothing right now, but I know I can always e-mail a request. I suggested books for National Board Certification back in August, I don't know if they have been purchased. Library skills set from GPN. 10. Have students at your school used eLibrary? Elementary a. yes 7, b. no 11, c. not very much 5 only 52% say students use e-library at elementary Used mainly by gifted students, others don't use it. - 1 My students are too young to use it. (preK-2) Gifted students use it a lot.-1 Middle a. yes 3, b. no 1, c. not very much 2    73% say students at middle school use e-library They use it all the time. We use it as a home page.   10b. Have students at your high school used Newsbank? a. yes 6, b. no 0, c. not very much 3   100% say students use Newsbank Comment - Not happy with it -1 11. Do you think having an electronic database like eLibrary is needed ? at Elementary level a. yes 9, b. no 8      only 53% say it is needed at elementary level Comments - Not sure it's needed, teachers are so focused on math, reading, etc. - not much time. I find better info on the internet. Not needed if we have to pay for it when others are free ie. Britannica.com. Britannica.com is no longer free. Our student population wouldn't use it enough to justify the cost but other schools may. We will probably not offer e-library to elementary schools next year. We will purchase an electronic encyclopedia, which is cheaper. Current usage does not seem to justify the expense of e-library for elementary. at Middle school a. yes 5, b. no 0 100% say it is needed We use it in classes daily! Maybe, Teachers here are not requiring periodicals as sources. Is this part of the requirements for middle school? Then we should definately deep it and encourage teachers to make periodicals a requirement for research. Aside from it's value aa a research tool periodical databases satisfy 1/2 half of the Southern Association Accreditiation Standards for numbers of periodicals required to be available in schools. 11a. Do you think having an electronic database like Newsbank is needed at the high school level? 100% say it is needed a. yes 9, b. no 0 Comments - Useful for social studies though not much used. A periodical database is a must,..is Newsbank the best? 12. Is there another electronic resource that you would like the county to purchase? a. yes 5 Comments - Keep SIRS Due to a generous gift from SIRS themselves we will be keeping SIRS through next March. Encyclopedia Britannica I liked Infotrac. Need a more graphical computer catalog. Hopefully, in a couple of years, if we can get funding we will go to a more graphical interface. Newsbank looked interesting. (middle school media specialist) 13. Did you receive adequate instructions and assistance with problems when you did your last inventory? a. Yes 33, b. No 0 100% positive response 14. Do you have any suggestions for ways to reduce costs for materials purchased in the future? Comments - We should be allowed to purchase books from the cheapest source possible. *See below Shopping around the jobbers and telling then each others prices works wonders. Palm can run a Powerpoint presentation instead of a laptop and they are cheaper. Forms on the web has worked well to cut costs. Keep it up. We need to keep the warehouse. We need security systems for the library. We have a lot of theft and lose books and materials frequently. I found a wide range of prices for the same items; looking through multiple catalogs can save a lot. Perhaps we could pool information about cost saving sources. I would like to know if Cox cable service and 1 copy of the Gainesville Sun are provided to any schools at no charge. I think they should be. I believe Cox is provided to everyone. Allow us to shop locally and w/book fairs as we wish. You can purchase materials from bookfairs now. Limiting us to $100 also very much limits the sale priced items we can purchase. Therefore the school spends more on full priced books and we buy things on sale out of our own money. *Because we have a Union database and we need to have uniform MARC records provided for as many of our records as possible we cannot allow schools to purchase from anywhere they want to. We don't have enough staff to do the numbers of original MARC records that would generate. 14. Additional comments Thank you for purchasing the public performance site license. If there are funds we plan to purchase it next year. The whole process of scheduling the human growth and development videos needs improvement as there are problems every year. Media doesn't schedule this. It is done by the Health supervisor. It is a pleasure to work with Nancy and with Barb. Nancy listens carefully and does her best to handle concerns of the library media specialists. She is always professional and extremely helpful. Nancy, you've been doing a great job for all of us. Keep up the great work!!! We also use SIRS daily. Thanks for the databases. Great resource. I appreciate getting School Library Journal through the county. another great resource! We don't have Cox cable yet, but will we get the Cable in the Classroom program listing prior to the start of the month? I've been getting it around the 15th of each month. Schools experiencing problems getting Cable in the Classroom on time should call Cox directly. Thanks Nancy and Barb for being so responsive. I wish the warehouse would purchase the roll book covers. They no longer do this. We have not met to discuss the new media curriculum adopted this summer. I think it is necessary because it will provide media specialists with best practices for their media centers and to defend their position for flexible schedules. I am afraid most media specialists shelved the folder and haven't looked at it since they first got it. We did meet November 13th with Middle and High and Nov.20th with Elementary media specialists to discuss the curriculum guide. Next year we will address it again and solicit recommendations for changes. My music teacher told me she envies me because in the 5 years she has worked her supervisor has never come to visit her. My music teacher is aware of the fact that you visit me at least twice a year, more if I request it and that you are willing to provide hands-on help if needed. The music teacher has struggled with some issues and would love some guidance but just doesn't feel she has the support she would like. She envies the support and rapport I have with you. Thanks for being there and for all you do. Thanks for the "warm fuzzies"! When we download the Telxons into the computer and reach the stage at which the coputer counts out the items scanned and stops on missing items found so that we can write them down. Items still checked out to people but evidently on the shelves, flash so quickly that it's impossible to see what the item is so that it can be checked in. These don't print out on the exceptions reports but I think they should. It would save a lot of time. This is not something that can be changed, but Dynix automatically checks these items in so you really don't need to get that information off the screen.   Return to Table of Contents