El Toro High School Library

ETHS Library Staff

Overview
The team: One full-time Library Media Teacher, one full-time Secondary Library Media Clerk, 14 Student Library Assistants, student volunteers, parent volunteers, ETHS administrative staff, and school and district tech support staff.
Student Assistants

Student Library Assistants (Gr. 11 & 12 only,  5 credits) perform library functions and services, such as: circulating books; managing print jobs; greeting, directing, and assisting library users; creating displays; shelving materials, & more. Must be pre-approved by Mrs. DeGolia. Interested?

Student Volunteers
Students may volunteer to work in the Library during Snack, Lunch, and summer vacation. Your service can last as long or short as you wish. Receive Community Service credits! You must be pre-approved by Mrs. Coats. Interested?
Parent Volunteers
Parent Library Volunteers keep the Library open for ETHS students after school. Service time is 3:00-4:30pm, weekly on the same day. ETHS parent volunteers have provided after-school library hours for 15 years! Interested? Parent volunteers for the 2007-2008 school year are: (TBA)
Mrs. DeGolia

Teacher Librarian
Mrs. DeGolia is responsible for the vision and administration of the Library Program, including supporting and enhancing curriculum, instruction, and learning; supporting and engaging students’ personal and reading interests; and creating procedures and policies for Library operations. She selects the Library’s books, magazines, and online services; develops lesson plans and teaches information literacy skills as part of research projects; provides research consultation to students and staff; actively collaborates with fellow teachers and programs (ex: AVID, IB); produces the Library website; creates catalog data; keeps current in technology; and strives for a library which is relevant to you. Mrs. DeGolia has a B.A. in English Literature, an M.S. in Library Science, a Life Standard
Secondary Teaching Credential, a Community College Life Credential, and AB2913 certification (CLAD). Mrs. DeGolia lived in Mammoth Lakes when she was your age and still loves high altitude. She's seriously into espresso and is writing a fiction book inspired by the drama of the Santiago Fire. Email is preferred askdegolia@gmail.com or call ext. 6174.

Mrs. Coats

Secondary Library Media Clerk
Mrs. Coats assists the librarian and is responsible for a wide variety of tasks which help keep ETHS Library running smoothly and supporting approximately 2700 students and over 100 faculty. Included in these responsibilities are textbook receiving, processing, storage, maintenance, and circulation. Got debt? Mrs. Coats is your go-to person for debt payment, coordinating with ASB to maintain the joint schoolwide Debt List. Mrs. Coats is also responsible for paperwork and providing followup for library book and supplies orders, receiving, recordkeeping, book processing, and supplies and materials management. She is available to students at Snack and Lunch, assisting them with computers and printing, answering questions, receiving debt payments, checking out books, and handling print jobs. Mrs. Coats is an avid fiction reader and often has great reading suggestions for students. She is a commercial artist, having created paintings for restaurants, murals for homes, and even a backdrop for our own ETHS Drama Department. You can see her art on display in the Library office. Mrs. Coats is very active in the Mission Viejo Chapter of the American Cancer Society. 
Email coatsd@svusd.org or call ext. 6151.

Administration
ETHS administration views and supports the Library as a classroom with important teaching and learning, rich resources and generous access, for all ETHS students. It recognizes that studies & data show that a Library Media Teacher's curricula--acquisition and application of information literacy skills and associated academic ethics--is critical to equipping students in this modern and technological time for success in their academic and personal lives.
Tech Support
Technology support staff: ETHS (Mr. Larry Phillips & student assistants) and SVUSD technology support staff play an indispensable role in enabling the Library, you the student, and staff to function at a high level of productivity.
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