Six Resilience Academy students from the Community Service Outreach Club toured the Pleasant Valley Library March 7 with hopes of organizing the library in the school’s learning commons.
The club has many missions, one of them is to highlight areas around the school that it can help with, including rebranding the library. The club also visits Salt Point Center to read to students.
“Right now, we’ve been working on organizing our library in the learning commons,” said teaching assistant Christina Olson, who chaperoned the students with teacher Amy McCann. “What we’ve been doing is sorting the books, talking about different genres, and learning and understanding libraries and how they operate.
“Coming to the Pleasant Valley Library was amazing because they got to see it firsthand, how it’s set up how it’s organized. We’re going to go back and take what we learned here and put it in our own space. We’ll work on getting books the students can utilize and have quiet reading time.”
Librarian Julie Poplees led the tour of each room in the library, including a community room, conference room, and rooms for teens and children. Poplees explained how the books are organized and how the card catalog is used before closing the tour in the conference room where students learned of available digital services.
Each student also received a library card, and were offered the opportunity to take some second-hand books and DVDs that were for sale at the library.
Stephen Fekishazy took about 10 books from the shelves to take home.
“I had a good time looking for books,” he said.
Alex Rivera had a bag with books and DVDs.
“I’m having a great time,” he said. “I’ll read the books and watch the movies. There’s a lot of stuff here. There are a lot of books, rooms to go to, and things to do.
Rivera added about the learning commons at Resilience, “It would be cool to organize the room at Resilience. I would enjoy reading there.”
Quinlan O’Neil said he had fun on the tour.
“It’s very neat, organized and I like it,” he said of the library. “It would be great to have a room like this at Resilience. I would use it.”