“Wow! This is a real project!” This statement was made by Joanna Posey as she looked into the library for the first time during her ScenicView tour last August. Joanna, a teacher endorsed in library-media by the Utah State Office of Education, saw the potential and labor needed for our library to be more functional and accessible to the school community. “A school library has the distinction of serving students in providing quality literacy materials and serving the teachers in maintaining materials used in their skill development classes,” states Ms. Posey. As a result, she and her student assistant, Jared F., have worked tirelessly in entering subjects and summaries for each of the books into the electronic catalog, weeding out books that were falling apart, covering older paperbacks with laminate, upgrading software, and placing barcodes and new spine labels on new books. This portion of the multifaceted project will be completed in a few months.
The decision was also made to merge the student library with the staff’s professional development library (housed in separate locations). This merger will enable all of the ScenicView instructional, student literacy, and professional materials to be placed into one checkout system and in one location. The combining of these resources will not only enable a periodic inventory to be more accurate, but it will also allow our ScenicView library to grow and support the entire ScenicView community at the same time.
In order to accommodate these changes, in library function and access additional students will be able to learn new employment skills. This training program will eventually enable the library to be open for longer hours. However, these changes will be gradual. Last September, a library survey was distributed to the community. Students and staff members listed several ways the library could improve in operation, accessibility, and acquisitions. Currently, those requests are helping to guide the direction of the library’s expansion.
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