The document outlines a facilities plan for the SBES Media Center which serves approximately 1,000 students and 84 staff. It describes the current layout and facilities, including seating areas, book sections, storage, and computers. The plan proposes improvements such as additional comfortable seating, new tables for younger students, and replacing the broken laminator.

1. S.B Elementary School
Media Center Facilities Plan
Motto: Where stars come to read
and learn!
Ashley Campbell
FRIT: 7132
Fall 2010
Instructor: Dr. Green

2. SBES Media Center Profile
• Serves approximately 1,000 students pre-
k through 5th grade.
• Serves 84 staff members.
• One full time paraprofessional.
• One full time media specialists.
• Open 7am – 3pm.

3. Media Center location
• The media center is located off of the main
hallway behind the main office.
• The media center is accessible to all
classrooms that were apart of the original
school plan. However, the additional hallways
that have been added have a longer walk to
get here.

4. View from main hall
This is the main entrance with some student works hanging in the window.

5. Circulation Desk
• The media specialist does not have her own office, so she
works off of the circulation desk or at one of the tables.
• The circulation desk is located in the back of the library
next to the computers and story time area.

6. Story Time Area
•This area is used by the media specialist for lessons
and story times. Many classes come in and use this
area for presentations because of the smart board.

7. Sitting Areas
• There are two couches in the middle of the media center that
students come to sit on to read their books.

8. Computer Area
• The computers are located in the back of the library in their own alcove next to the
circulation desk.
• There are 10 computers for the students to use.

9. Storage Room
• The storage room holds books that are being
repaired, videos, audio books, and the
laminator.

10. Fiction
•Fiction is around the left walls of the library
from the storage room to the front doors.

11. Non-Fiction
• Nonfiction is around the right walls of the library
from the story time area to the front doors.

12. Easy Reader
• The easy/everybody section has large selection
with plenty of empty shelf space to grow. It is
located in the middle left side of the library.

13. Reference
• The reference section is located in the very
front of the library right as you open the doors
and behind the sitting area.

14. Current Facilities Floor Plan

15. Positive Survey Responses
Students Teachers
1. They enjoy being able to self 1. They like the fact the they can
check out their own books. use the story time area for class
2. The people in the MS are always presentations or show and tell.
nice and friendly. 2. Students can usually find
resourceful books on projects
3. There are many good books to they are doing.
read. 3. There are many die cuts in the
4. They like the fire place in the storage room to use.
story time area and the
computer area.

16. Negative Survey Responses
• Additional sofas, bean bag chairs, or rocking
chairs wanted for the seating area.
• Small tables for younger students are needed.
• A new large laminator needs to be purchased
or repaired because the old one is now
broken.
• Some sort of barrier for the story time area
would be nice to keep it quiet during lessons.

17. Media Center Improvements
• Additional sofas, bean bag chairs, or rocking
chairs wanted for the seating area.
Denim Bean Bag Arm Chair Lounger Bean Bag Chair Mitt Chair
$124.00 $63.29 $158.00
http://www.highsmith.com/Lounger- http://www.highsmith.com/Mitt-Chair-
http://www.highsmith.com/Denim-Bean-
Bean-Bag-Chair- c_31102633/H178541/?CID=H9P001
Bag-Armchair-38quotH-x-38quotW-x-
c_21705498/H59807/?CID=H9P001
34quotD-
c_21705486/H75735/?CID=H9P001

18. Media Center Improvements
Colorful Children‘s Library Community Lincoln
Table, 23"H x 36“ Children's Table, 25"H x
$203.00 36"W x 72“
447.00
http://www.highsmith.com/Colorful-
Childrens-Library-Table-23quotH-x- http://www.highsmith.com/Community-
36quot-dia- Lincoln-Childrens-Table-25quotH-x-
c_21707679/H67983/?CID=H9P001 36quotW-x-72quotL-Blue-c_21707685/

19. Media Center Improvements
• A new large laminator needs to be purchased
or repaired because the old one is now
broken.
MyBinding MY2700L
Premium 27" School Laminator
$999.95
http://www.mybinding.com/.sc/ms/dd/ee/63388/MyBinding-
MY2700L-Premium-27-inch-School-Laminator-
Kit?utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase
&cvsfa=693&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=706e2d3332303633333838

20. Media Center Improvements
• Some sort of barrier for the story time area would be nice to keep it quiet during lessons.
• This is Vitra’s Cocoon Chair. It not only looks very comfortable but it could be placed around
the edges of the story time area to create a sound barrier for the rest of the library.
http://globusdesignassoci
ates.typepad.com/gdablo
g/2010/06/library-seating-
from-neocon.html

21. Facility Plan Modifications
Kids
Tables Comfortable
chairs and
bean bags
New
Laminator Red and
Green
Cocoon
Chairs
M.S
Desk

22. Current Media Center Policy
Philosophy
Bartow County School System assumes responsibility for maintaining a stimulating school environment in which
children and youth are provided a breadth and variety of experiences calculated to motivate them toward
physical, intellectual, emotional and social growth. The program is based upon the realization that a student
matures in each of these four areas of personality at a rate peculiar to himself. It emphasizes the importance of
making him/her “ready” for each new understanding or of extending a concept previously introduced.
The curriculum in each school is, therefore, built around the student and needs.
The school media center should serve as the “heart” or core of the school curriculum, providing for students and
faculty the various materials and services needed in order for students to gain maximum benefits from their
courses of study, to satisfy intellectual curiosity concerning a number of topics, and to provide materials for
leisure-time activities. These materials and services should be of the best quality available and should be
organized to be easily assessable. The services also should be such as would awaken within each student a
sense of responsibility toward keeping the instructional materials intact and usable for as long as possible.
The media centers of the Bartow County Public School System shall meet or exceed the requirements of the State
Board of Education and Accrediting Commissions.
All school-owned print and non-print media and equipment, except basic textbooks, computers, and classroom-
based equipment and materials, are organized and made available for use through the media center to
individuals and classrooms.
The media centers will house and circulate instructional resources and equipment for program
implementation. These resources should be reliable, authoritative, and durable. Access to the materials will be
of utmost importance. Media centers will be open to students and instructional staff daily without exception.
The Bartow County Board of Education is legally responsible for all materials and services relating to the operation of
the media centers.

23. Current Media Center Policy
Funding
Allocation of Funds
Criteria for allocation of funds for textbooks, media center resources, consumable
instructional resources and instructional equipment at the system and building
levels will be based on instructional needs, available funds, allocation formulas,
and compliance with requirements, for accreditation.
The State of Georgia, Board of Education shall allot funds for instructional media to a
local unit of administration based on the number of instructional units allotted to
a local unit under provisions of Quality Basic Education Act and the amount of
funds appropriated by the Georgia General Assembly.
The State Board shall distribute funds for instructional equipment to local units of
administration on the basis of average daily attendance and the amount of funds
appropriated by the Georgia General Assembly.
When expending funds allotted and distributed under this policy, local systems shall
adhere to the requirements of the Federal Copyright Law (P.L.94-553).

24. Current Media Center Policy
Selection of Media Materials
The primary objective of the school media
center is to aid in the development of life-long
learners. The materials and equipment
selected for purchase by the media center
should implement and support this objective.

25. Current Media Center Policy
Library Books, Media Equipment, and Other Non-Consumable Materials
Media center materials and equipment would consist of materials purchased for the purpose of circulation through the media center and
equipment purchased to deliver media center services. This does not include textbook materials or equipment purchased for use in
specific classrooms, programs, or departments.
The selection of materials is the responsibility of the school media specialist. In the selection of materials for purchase, the media specialist
will consider the goals established by the School Media Committee and the criteria listed below. Individual teachers, students, and
parents may also make recommendations for materials to be purchased.
1. General criteria to be considered (criteria that affect the overall selection procedure);
a. Curriculum needs
b. Provisions for a wide range of abilities and interests
c. Provision for recreational needs
d. Needs of the professional staff
2. Specific criteria to be considered (criteria that affect the selection of individual items):
a. Authority – reputation and significance of author, artist, composer, and producer.
b. Reputation of the publisher.
c. Scope – overall purpose.
d. Reliability – accuracy, recency, timeliness or permanence.
e. Subject matter.
f. Treatment of material – purpose, bias, technical or general level.
g. Readability and popular appeal.
h. Quality of writing or production.
i. Format: print/non-print
j. Reviews and recommendations of the item published in professionally respected selection tools.
Throughout the school year, the media specialist will compile orders for media materials and/or equipment purchases (new
acquisitions, maintenance, and repair) totaling no more than the amount allotted for these purposes. Each order will be forwarded first
to the principal, then to the Central Office Purchasing Department for approval.

26. Current Media Center Policy
Equipment
Recommendation for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and replacement of equipment will be
made through the cooperation of the Central Office staff and the principal and faculty of each
school.
The local selection of equipment is initiated by the school media specialist who received
recommendations from the principal, teachers, local medical committees, students, and
parents. The principal approves the selection and forwards it to the Central Office Purchasing
Department for approval.
Good management and fiscal responsibility encourage utilization of centralized purchasing to
bring about savings to local schools.
Procurement
Library Books and Other Non-consumable Materials
Requests for library books and other non-consumable materials are submitted according to the
procedures for procurement as required by the Superintendent.
The budget allocation for Bartow County will be on a per pupil basis.

27. Current Media Center Policy
Equipment and Supplies
Equipment and supplies for Bartow County Schools will be selected on the following criteria;
a. It retains its original shape and appearance with use.
b. It does not lose its identity through incorporation into a different unit.
c. It does not function as an integral part of the building or grounds.
d. It is not standard type furniture.
e. It must perform a mechanical or technical function directly related to instruction.
f. Its life expectancy would normally exceed two years.
Equipment
Requests for equipment are submitted in accordance with system purchasing policies.

28. Ashley Campbell
FRIT: 7132
Fall 2010
Instructor: Dr. Green