• Message From The Librarian...
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• International Dot Day Resources
• Banned Books Week September 18-24 "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us."
• Library at Boys & Girls Haven
• What Is on Your Mind? by Sharon McNairy
• Library at Brook Dupont

Greetings everyone!

Here are just a few of the things that have been going on in our State Agency Libraries:

• Weeding the collection at Maryhurst, making room for new material!
• Cataloging new books at Brooklawn, adding to the collection!
• Constructing the library at Boys & Girls Haven.
• Ordering new books so we can start RIF.
• And as always, getting books into the hands of our kids!

I want to take a moment to thank ALL of the administrators, teachers, staff and students who support our school libraries. There may not be huge spaces with thousands and thousands of books, but there are adequate spaces with hundreds of books that our kids are grateful to have access to! I love more than anything seeing the excitement on their faces when they get a book they can relate to; Or hearing about how much they enjoyed a book that they just finished!

So many of our kids LOVE to read!

"Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlighting current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. For 40 years, the annual event has brought together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship." - American Library Association

Click here for resources to get involved!

I'm happy to announce that the students at Boys & Girls Haven will finally be able to start checking out books in their new library this Friday!

Thank you Mrs. Johnson for all the support you give to our State Agency libraries!

I'm super excited to share that thanks to Mr. Marshall, Mrs. Moss, and Mrs. Brutscher, we will be adding a small but mighty library at the Brook Dupont in the near future. Our kids want access to books and we're giving it to them!