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Library Vision
The Johnson High School Library provides a welcoming space to enrich and empower students so that they may foster their social and academic needs through collaboration and learning using the technology, space, and resources available.
Library Mission
The JHS library provides an environment that provides students and staff access to print and online resources that support their intellectual development and learning needs and provides a collection of technological spaces and tools that foster collaboration, encourage innovation and assist in learning.
Library Staff
Haley Schmidt, Librarian
hschmi3@neisd.net, Library Assistant
@neisd.net
Library Resources
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Electronic Resource Subscriptions
- ABC-CLIO American History: Social Studies
- ABC-CLIO World Geography: Social Studies
- ABC-CLIO World History: Social Studies
- ABC-CLIO American Gov: Social Studies
- ABC-CLIO Latin American: Social Studies
- ABC-CLIO World Religions: Social Studies
- BrainPop: Educational Videos & Tools
- Britannica Online: English & Spanish Encyclopedias
- Discovery Education: Educational Videos & Tools
- Gale Biography in Context: Biographical
- Gale Educational Reference Complete : Education
- Gale GREENR: Environmental
- Gale Literary Sources: Literature
- Gale National Geographic Kids: Social Studies/Science
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Current Issues
- Gale Power Search: Search Engine for Advanced Resources
- Gale Research in Context: General Knowledge
- Gale Science in Context: Science
- Learning Express: Career & College Prep
- ProQuest SIRS Discoverer: General Knowledge
- ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher: Current Issues
- Soundzabound: Royalty-Free Music
- Teaching Books: Literature
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Books, Audiovisual Materials, & Periodicals
- Print Books : 10,485
- Print Spanish Books: 783
- Electronic Books*: 27,161
- Periodical subscriptions** : 32
- Print books per student: 8.4
- Electronic books per student : 21.9
- Total books per student: 30.3
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Digital Books
- Abdo: Spanish Nonfiction
- Britannica E-Stax: English & Bilingual, Nonfiction
- DK: English, Nonfiction
- Gale ASCD: English, Nonfiction, Professional
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL): English, Nonfiction
- OverDrive: English & Spanish, Fiction & Nonfiction
- Tumblebooks: English & Spanish, Fiction & Nonfiction
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Library Collection
Avg. Age of Print & Digital Collection: 2010
Usage Statistics
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Circulation
Total Circulation to students, staff, parents & community: 16,847
Total Circulation to students only: 16,025
OverDrive eBook Circulation: 1,616
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LibGuides Usage
Library Webpage Total Views: 5,194
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Discovery Education Usage
Total Views: 1,526
Programming, Technology, Training, & Leadership
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Library Programming & Use
Research Projects/Lessons
Examples
- Decade Research Unit (6th Social Studies): Students explored and researched important historical and pop culture events from a decade and created a new report using the green screen.
- Holocaust Genius Hour Research (8th Grade ELAR) Students chose a subtopic to research and created a short informational video using Adobe Spark.
- Self-selected Research for 3D Model Project (Makerspace Club) Students chose a topic, researched, and created a 3D model representation of their topic.
- World War II Research (6th grade Social Studies) Students researched a topic within World War II and created a webpage with the information learned.
For each research project, the librarian provided recommended digital resources and technology guides (with videos created in Screencastify).
Collaboration
Examples
- Professional Development with Instructional Technology Specialist: Various professional development sessions were prepared and hosted by the ITS and librarian such as Lunch N’ Learn, Library Resource and Technology Lifesavers, and more.
- First Lego League: Astronaut Training and Virtual Reality Research. The librarian met with the FLL school team to provide recommended books, recommended digital research, and support for developing research for their solution to the FLL project.
- Hands-on Life in a Spanish Mission Research (7th Grade Texas History) Students learned about the Spanish Missions by doing various tasks that represented duties of Spanish Monks.
- AVID Career Research-Students researched various career fields using Learning Express digital resource and presented to their peers.
- 7th Grade Writing STAAR Bootcamp-The librarian supported a week long STAAR review which included various stations.
Other Programming in the Library
Examples
- 3D Printing-The week of Valentines Day, we hosted a “Spread the Love” event where students could print one 3D object for free.
- Magnetic Poetry-Students could write a poem on the Smartboard.
- San Antonio Holocaust Museum Presentation
- Drone Photographer Presentation
- Mission Ranger Presentation
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Reading Promotion & Activities
- PAWS for Service reading buddy
- Clash of Titles
- Author Visit: Jennifer Nielsen
- Book Club
- Fall and Spring Book Fair- Students visited during their reading class and
- Edible Book Reading Challenge (at our library)
- NEISD Edible Book Festival
- October is for OverDrive
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Technology Integration
- Applications: Nearpod Sef paced lesson, Nearpod Virtual Field Trips, Quizziz, Google Classroom, Adobe Spark Page, Adobe Spark Video, Seesaw, Hour of Code iPad apps, Do Ink, TinkerCad, Bloxels
- Hour of Code-Various Hour of Code lessons and activities were hosted during the month of December.
- Art-First Point Perspective Nearpod presentation.
- Biographies (6th grade ELAR) Students researched one world-famous person using the Biography library digital resource and Biography books as well.
- Holocaust Research (8th grade Choir)-The girls advanced choir prepared for their performance of “When I am Silent” by researching the history behind the song. The lesson included a learning menu with direct access to NEISD library digital resources, National Holocaust Museum resources, and learning extensions.
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Staff/Parent Training & Leadership
Staff & Parent Training
- Teacher Library Orientation
- Teacher Professional Development Sessions: Smartboard Basics, Make the Middle of Year Magnificent (Library Research Apps), Library Resource Lifesavers, and more
- PTA training on Google Forms for student voting
- School Secretary-Google App training
- Parent Training on OverDrive
Leadership
- Served as a member of the Bradley MS Leadership Team
- Big Give Champion-Organized school fundraiser for Chromebooks
- Technology Committee Leader
