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Kennedy Elementary Library Services Plan
4401 42nd Street South Fargo, ND 58104
2024-2025
School Mission Statement
Students at Kennedy Elementary School learn in a safe, collaborative, and stimulating environment while developing academic, cultural, and character excellence for successful lifelong learning. Library Media Mission Statement The Kennedy Elementary Library provides an environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and personal enjoyment reading. The library offers a rich variety of print and electronic resources necessary to enrich and support educational programs and the certified library media specialist works collaboratively to provide the services necessary to satisfy the evolving informational and recreational needs of the students, faculty, and staff.
Personnel
Susan K. Kempel, MLS
Library Media Specialist
Masters in Library Science
Emporia State University, May 1998
Employed 100% full time with Fargo Public Schools since 1999.
Taylor Webster
Instructional Resources Library Assistant
Employed full time with Fargo Public Schools since 2024
Library Assistant -- open
Tanya Akyuz
Technology
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Scope of Services
Library Services provided to 23 Regular education classrooms of kindergarten - 5th grade students.
Library Media Specialist teaches individuals and classes the skills needed to find information in multiple sources.
Individual assistance is available to students needing instruction in reference skills. Library Media Specialist and library assistant make recommendations for good books to read.
Library Media Specialist offers the following services to teachers Integrated, cooperative planning for curricular and multi-source or multimedia research projects Team-teaching Book and reading recommendations Booktalks, Storytelling and Book Sharing, Interlibrary loan, Reference Services Preparation of subject bibliographies Webpage and multimedia creation and instruction Technical troubleshooting (computer, electronics, etc.)
Library hours 7:45 - 3:30 for students 7:15 - 3:30 for staff Resources
Approximately 20,000 books available
10 magazines available for student checkout
Audio books available for student checkout
online databases available on elementary resource page
Library catalog available online Elementary Resource page
Books and magazines purchased with school board funds.
Schedule and Time assignments
Each kindergarten class has one 20-minute checkout time per week with instruction/story time
Each 1st and 2nd grade class has one 30-minute checkout time per week with instruction/story time
Each 3rd, 4th and 5th grade class has one 30-minute checkout time per week with instruction
Research activities scheduled as needed after collaboration with classroom teacher Open access to students during school day Databases and library catalog available online
Additional Information Library Media goal statements available upon request AASL Standards for the 21st century student http://www.aasl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/AASL_LearningStandards.pdf
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