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- Name of Your Library:
- McLain Community High School
- About Me:
MY GOAL HERE:
My hope here is to make connections with librarians that care about getting boys to read. My blog, GettingBoystoRead.com, is dedicated to helping parents, teachers, and librarians learn how to get boys to read. I have spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars launching and running it, all without a plan to make any money. I'm a good guy with good intentions :-)
MY CAREER:
I taught sixth grade for the first 4 years of my career, followed by another 6 years as an elementary librarian. I switched to the high school level and am currently in my 4th year as the teacher-librarian at McLain Community HS. It's an alternative high school which means that 95% of our 700+ students are labeled at risk, all of which have dropped out of their previous school. When I first arrived in 2004 we did an extreme library makeover and made the library a great place to visit. We encourage food and drinks, have a library cafe, 4 huge Luv Sacs, offer free monthly pancakes, and do a ton of other fun things. We also have a "No Shushing" policy.
MY HOBBIES:
My favorite hobby is spending time my family. I have 13 and 9 year old kids and just celebrated 15 years of marriage. I also like technology, 4-wheeling, Sat. Morning Basketball, Hiking, and
RV-ing
ODD TIDBITS:
I have been cutting my own hair for 18 years, My high school buddies call me E.T. because I have hammer toes, I Lived in Nome, Alaska for 8 months, I hated to Read as a kid and now I'm a librarian.
MY WEBSITE:
http://GettingBoysToRead.com. We are a community based blog for parents, librarians, and teachers. We provide information and support through articles, videos, interviews, and our forum.
LET'S NETWORK: (request me as a friend)
Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1524240073
Twitter - http://twitter.com/MrMLibrarian
- Library Website:
- http://GettingBoysToRead.com
- What is Your Interest in Library 2.0 (not yes or no)
- When I first arrived at my new school in 2004 we did an extreme library makeover and made the library a great place to visit - very web 2.0 style. We encourage food and drinks, have a library cafe, 4 huge Luv Sacs, offer free monthly pancakes, and do a ton of other fun things. We also have a "No Shushing" policy.
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AIS 2008-2010
September 1, 2008 at 9am to September 30, 2010 at 5pm – Satasang Viharmarg, New Delhi
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Public Library Innovation Program
November 22, 2009 at 6pm to February 28, 2010 at 7pm – Rome, Italy
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Changed my name back to Chinese one.
I've just talked to a colleague from other library and asked how to attract people into the library blog. I don't know how you run it. We have Parra Reads here which I have set it up since April. It took while ...
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I am a staff member from a small library branch with only two people in Sydney, Australia. I participated in the library2.0 program last year which was organised by the NSW State Library. We now continue our journey of learning which includes "Nings". It brought me here to your ning page. I am very interested in your "GettingBoystoRead" site. I would like to share it with my colleagues. We hope to use a lot tips from your site to achieve our goal. I hope that you don't mind. Thanks.
I've viewed your site on getting boys to read and its very interesting and educational
May I ask for information regarding an example of a year-round library
activities that you have been doing in your respective institution
Thanks a lot
Im glad and thankful for inviting me...I hope we can share/exchange more ideas regarding our field.
rhiz
I also have two boys who hate to read and have been researching guys reading for some time. why don't boys like to read? too boring, not as exciting as video games, not interested. some like movies better than reading.
Thanks for this!
Great work! I am also a high school teacher-librarian and will certainly be able to use your blog! Who knows, if my schedule slows down I might even be able to contribute to it! Having two young boys of my own, I appreciate everything you are doing!
Karen
I think you are on an important mission and I wish you the best of luck!
Robert
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