Thanks to Kathy Lankford, ETS and media assistant, at Stoner-Thomas for this blog post about the Stoner-Thomas school library makeover. At Stoner-Thomas we always wanted a Media Center like our sister schools in Davidson County, but being a smaller school with not a lot of money to purchase books, we depended a lot on donations or discarded books from other schools or our community. Donations are terrific, but it needed more. Not a lot of time is put into the Media Center, because we do not have a Media Coordinator to do the daily duties of the Media Center, nor the volunteers needed to run it successfully. Teachers would take their class to the Media Center every week and just let students pick out books to look at, most of the time books were not put back into the correct order, not because teachers weren’t watching, but, because there was no organization to the Media Center. But now, with the help of a few volunteers, we have a Media Center to be proud of! We recruited some students to help label books by category to match the totes they were placed in, we worked several days reorganizing the books, getting rid of old books, getting some book cases, getting our bulletin boards raised, and reorganize the teacher resource section. Our "new" media center has a Pirate theme and the students and staff love it! Teachers have started to filter back into the Media Center with students to enjoy the new look and sections that have been created. Teachers love the category totes, because they are easily displayed for students to see. Having student helpers for the Media Center has given a few students time to enjoy the books, talk about their favorite book or to let us know what books they would like to see in the Media Center. We still need to expand our book collection, but for now, we love our new Media Center.
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Shanna Leonard
5/23/2017 06:30:47 pm
This is exciting for the students and staff! The library looks great!
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Kate Lewis
5/23/2017 08:42:41 pm
It looks wonderful! All your hard work and dedication are clearly evident. 😍
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Tammi Rachels
5/23/2017 09:02:16 pm
What a fun and inviting media center! Love it!
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Amy Snyder
5/24/2017 05:19:17 am
What a beautiful media center! Congrats on a job well done!
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Tracy Varner
5/24/2017 07:58:07 am
Your media center looks awesome, and the students seem very excited about it!! Great job!!
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Kristi Allred
5/24/2017 11:11:39 am
Well done! It is exciting that the students and staff want to use the media center more often now.
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