{"id":175,"date":"2022-07-21T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/?p=175"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:04:05","slug":"library-visit-school-library-virginia-beach-public-elementary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/2022\/07\/21\/library-visit-school-library-virginia-beach-public-elementary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Visit-School Library-Virginia Beach Public Elementary Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

                        The elementary schools in Virginia Beach are excellent resources for their students and their family members. For safety reasons, I will not provide the specific name or a detailed breakdown of the layout of the school or the library I visited. Instead, I will refer to the school as VBES. The library at VBES is warm and inviting to students at all grades levels. It is colorfully and whimsically decorated with clear signage and directions for students. The stacks are alphabetized and separated by reading level. A nice selection of age-appropriate nonfiction books is available along with a large collection of youth novels and graphic novels. The growing popularity of graphic novels for this target age is well represented and these works are placed for easy location by students. The library information and checkout are situated on prime real estate in the library to ensure access for students and a clear vantage point for the librarian and their assistant. Because this is an elementary space and access to the library is very structured, there is not a large amount of comfortable seating to encourage students to sit and read. There is a dedicated reading area where students can spread out on the rug and listen to lessons and readings by the staff that is very cozy but that is the necessary extend. A large area of the library is dedicated to a makerspace where interactive activities are available and encouraged as part of the library experience. The librarian at VBES is actively engaged in specials education and provided weekly lessons and visits, alternating between the library and the classroom. This has created comfortable working relationships between the librarian and the students and between the librarian and the teachers. The library is utilized during a part of the year for standardized testing, but this is only mildly inconvenient for students at the time of year this takes place. The overarching theme at VBES is welcome and interest. The librarian is interested in the lives and likes of the students, engages them each in person conversation, and strives to maintain materials that will encourage the students to read and participate eagerly in their educational journey. For more information the Virginia Beach City Public Schools website is a great resource: Home – Virginia Beach City Public Schools (vbschools.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                        The elementary schools in Virginia Beach are excellent resources for their students and their family members. For safety reasons, I will not provide the specific name or a detailed breakdown of the layout of the school or the library I visited. Instead, I will refer to the school as VBES. The library at VBES … Continue reading Library Visit-School Library-Virginia Beach Public Elementary Schools<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-vmcfa001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}