OLP update
The Our Lady of the Presentation library is shaping up quite nicely. I negotiated a ~$4,000 donation of reference books (with a few fiction items thrown in) for the collection, which updates the collection a great deal. Jen and I spent two days this week sorting the shelves — which were previously organized by subject and shelved three deep in some places — into keepers and deselecteds, and organizing them such that the teachers can come through and check for items they’d really like us to keep.
We also rearranged the book cases so that the room looks like a library when you first walk in. Since the room is also used by the chess club, we wanted the library area to be what you see when you first walk in, then to have the tables and chairs further into the room. Hopefully we can get some large, clear plastic containers to hold the games and things like headphones, to keep them all tidy.
A festive throw rug we picked up from Target in the library area of the room will complete the look. Perhaps, if there’s time, we’ll repaint the bookshelves (since we’ll need to move the books around again after the teachers pick and choose to put them in cataloged order).
We’ve accomplished a whole lot, and I feel like we’re really making progress. Granted, there’s a whole other room of books we haven’t dealt with, and we need to make decisions about the catalog, but that’s the fun of plans, they can come in phases. 
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