Happy New (School) Year everyone!!!

We are off to an amazing start to this unusual year.  Most of your kids have had library at least once and are getting used to our new “temporary normal”.

Library, like everything else this year, looks a little different.  Mrs. Graser and I will be bringing library to your students on a cart every week. We’ve done this before, during testing weeks, but never quite this way. The good news is, we will be checking books out, but because we are traveling by cart, students will be limited to one book. We also won’t check out every week, but for the time being, we will check out every other week. Obviously, we can’t bring the whole library on two carts so the selection will be a little less varied, but we are communicating with each group of students to tailor the books that go to each classroom as much as we can. Once our older students get reacquainted with our online catalog, they will also be able to send requests to the library to check out specific books.

When books come back to the library, they will be held in quarantine for 6 days and then put back into circulation. This is at the recommendation of OCLC (a national library research group) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

This seems like an excellent time to remind everyone…if you have any library books from last school year at home, please have your student bring them to school as soon as possible. Classroom teachers will be able to return them to the library. There are lots and lots of books still checked out from when we left for the pause. Eventually, we will send out reminders. If you have any questions about overdue books, please email me at dabbott@westgenesee.org.

In the coming weeks, we will be reteaching all of the online resources we introduced during the spring in our remote lessons. Students will be shown the revamped library website and resources like Bookflix, SORA, and MyON to remind them how to access ebooks and audiobooks whenever they want.

Stay tuned for more news from the library (carts)!

And don’t forget to

READ4FUN!

Mrs. Abbott

(Email me at any time at dabbott@westgenesee.org)