Hooray for furniture! We got our Smartboard, too, for the library and computer lessons. And CHAIRS! And, on the floor, you can see the storytime rug. It is finally coming together, furniture-wise.
Of course, what is the point of a desk if you don’t fill it with piles of books to process and catalog, and your [...]
Sara is amazing! I only come one day a week because of my three other libraries, so she does most of the “heavy lifting.” She whipped the non-fiction section into shape.
There is a problem with fiction, though.
The problem is that the big collection ordered for the library was all non-fiction, a bid collection, and it’s [...]
…and not a moment too soon! Actually, about a month late. Vendors have trouble getting their wares to Wyoming, it seems.
But the shelves were there, and some books were ready for them:
Which is lovely:
There are about 40 students. Here is everyone lining up for the all-school picture day (instead of taking one picture per class, the students take pictures together. Grades are combined, two at a time, and taught together.)
It is worth noting that the principal has the coolest car I’ve pretty much ever seen.
They take [...]
Just because we didn’t have furniture, it didn’t mean we didn’t have books.
There were more than 1,000 books waiting to be cataloged and shelved (once we had shelves). It was an intimidating sight.
A sizeable order, waiting to be opened and cataloged…
Sara and I took the books out of the boxes. She began organizing them and [...]
In the beginning, there was an empty room.
It was not always empty. It used to be full of books, computers, and activity, when the public library ran a combined school and community library at the school.
Now the public library has its own bookmobile (in the school’s parking lot) and the school is creating its own [...]
