Teacher Survey of Media Center

1. What grade level do you teach? K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

2. How often do your students visit the media center? Please answer in the
following format: ______ times a day/ week/ month

3. Resources in the media center reflect student needs and class curriculum:
A. Strongly Agree
B. Agree
C. Disagree
D. Strongly Disagree

4. What book sections should our library expand upon to best support your
student's' academic needs? (select one or more)
A. early readers
B. easy nonfiction
C. beginner chapter books
D. historical fiction
E. biography
F. periodicals (newspaper, magazine)
G. poetry
H. graphic novels
I. books in other languages
J. how-to books
K. other: ____________________________________

5. How often have you or your students used books for research that you
believe are outdated?
A. Always
B. Often
C. Sometimes
D. Never
*If you marked always or often, which book topics?
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6. What nonfiction topics should be added to our library to best support your
curriculum? (If you do not have an answer, leave this space blank.)
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7. If the library purchased class sets of books for units of study how likely are
you to use them?
A. I would definitely use them.
B. Very likely
C. Somewhat likely
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D. Not likely
If likely, please list which titles you would like to use:
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8. Do you find that your students are all looking for the same book, and the
library does not have enough copies of that title?
A. Always
B. Sometimes
C. Rarely
D. Never
If you marked always or sometimes, which titles do you believe the
library needs more copies of?
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9. How well do our professional resources that are available for teacher
checkout meet your needs?
A. Everything I need is available.
B. Materials are available to meet many of my needs.
C. Most of the materials available are not helpful to me.
D. The available materials are not helpful to me at all.

If your needs are not being met, what titles or topics would you like to be
added to our professional resources section?
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10. Please list the best features of our library collection, as well as those than
need the most improvement, in the space below:
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