LMP Planning Tools.

Design Considerations for School Library Media Centers - Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Perhaps one of the first things I do when I get hired as an LMS will be to take a look at the facility I have been put in charge of and change it up a bit to better suit the expectations I will have for my LMP. To prepare for this, I have this webpage in my handbook that will give me ideas for what my LMC will need and should look like. Because my library science education comes from Wisconsin, I can trust the information on here and know that it will suit the information literacy needs I have been taught to have and recognize.

Information Technology Literacy Plan - Oshkosh Area School District
Every district should have a plan like this, and I will work with the other LMS's in my district, if there are others, to develop and implement the plan. This particular three-year plan spells out what each LMS will do in his or her school(s) to achieve Information Technology Literacy goals developed to align with current research, goals carried over from the last plan, and the district's strategic aims. This well-rounded plan includes the Information Technology Literacy department's history in the district, its current staff members, and some historical background about Oshkosh. From this plan, I can see that everything I do in my LMP will be linked to the philosophies and mission statement of the district and that I will have to collaborate with many administrative figures in the district in order to create a plan that will suit the needs of all the schools in the district. Although I will have my own plan for my own LMC, I will need to follow the larger plan the whole district sets up as well. At the end of this plan, the district budget represents the money that all the LMS's in the district, put together, receive to buy their materials. From my time spent in this district as a student teacher, I have gleaned an understanding of how this money is distributed and used throughout the district.

Annual LMP Review - Lawrence High School, Kansas
Reporting and reviewing how the year went leads to planning, and sharing those details with the community is the only way to get proper feedback from the community. Therefore, I would post something like this in my handbook for everyone to come and see at the end of the year. I would also post something like this to strengthen the library media profession overall because people need to see all that the LMP can do for a school.

Annual LMP Report - Palisades High School Library Media Center, Pennsylvania
This official reports shows specific statistics about how the LMP was utilized during the year. In it, the LMS lists usage statistics and how they varied from the year before, progress on goals that were identified, new goals to work on for the next year, and other important things that happened that year. Writing up a "End of the Year Report" is very worthwhile because it identifies weaknesses in the LMP and give the LMS an opportunity to reassess old goals and create new ones. This report really shows how the LMS's LMP has evolved and I would many of the same reflection techniques that she does. One thing I would add would be any results of surveys I took throughout the year, which would dictate, in part, any changes I make to the LMP for the following year.

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Mrs. Redmond's Short Term Goals as a First Year LMS

Obtain Status of LMP
-Read short and long term goals of previous LMP
-Interview the SLMS I'm replacing and/or assistants
--Special LMC events?
--Find out vision and philosophy of previous LMP
--How was the LMC used?
-Create my own personal vision for the LMP and LMC

Identify Current Overall Attitude toward LMP
-Conduct Student, Parent, and Staff surveys using Survey Monkey
--Obtain community-wide view of previous LMP and SLMS
--Obtain community-wide view of LMC and collection condition
--Obtain community-wide information literacy needs
--Identity previous LMP and SLMS insufficiencies ineffective components
--Gather ideas for building up the program
-Talk to other SLMSs in the district to identify overall climate
-Visit other LMCs in the district

Create/Modify LMP mission and vision
-Align with district and school mission and vision
-Reflect district, school, and my own educational philosophies
-Make it visible to community

Assess Collection
-Use Titlewise to obtain collection age
-Examine district benchmarks
-Get a feel for the school's curriculum and how collection supplements it
-Consider the community's attitude towards collection (from surveys)
-Establish level of global and unbiased cultural-awareness in the collection
-Establish vision for collection
-Set goals to improve collection

Improve LMC
-Move things around to make LMC more suitable for information literacy learning (if not possible right away, make a plan to accomplish it in steps)
--Provide spaces for group work
--Provide spaces for individual work
--Make a read-a-loud space
--Provide adequate computer/catalog space
--Display décor that appeals to students and supports LMP vision and philosophy
-Display Current Event content often in interesting, thought provoking ways