Score one for OLP!
My project for Our Lady of Presentation, a parochial elementary school in Brighton, has taken an excellent turn.
This is a great example of how networking can get you what you need, and how spiffy cool it is for the profession for librarians to be talking to other librarians just in general.
As I mentioned, I taught my last workshop at Watertown last night, and after the workshop, I was chatting with the YA librarian about my progress in my job search. That led in to my work on this volunteer project to help overhaul this school library, and how I’m researching an option to lease the reference items we need. Turns out Watertown is preparing for a major renovation, and moving to a temporary location, just as they are weeding in different departments, including YA. She proceeded to show me the weed cart, and all the stuff she’s basically been giving away, with all the leftovers going to the library book sale.
I am getting a World Book set, 2003 edition, and a bunch of other fabulous reference sets and items for *free*. This is just too cool. I told the project director about the score, and she’s *stoked*. This not only helps us achieve our September deadline of having a basic library in place for the new school year, but gives us more time to think about our collection development policy and options more carefully.
Yay!
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