Monaco Elementary, Commerce City, CO Summer 2013
Original Set up of the Monaco’s Library, May 2013: . The room was dark and cave like. Computers were in rows down the center and the book cases were pushed to the sides. No books had been purged. The collection, however, had been decimated due to lost books. Many of the books that were on the shelves were tattered.
Maxwell library Makeover Spring 2015
The fiction books in the Maxwell Elementary Library were shelved by Accelerated Reading Levels. This means that everyone in the library had trouble finding the books- even the teachers and the librarian! With Partners in Literacy’s help, Maxwell reorganized the fiction books in their library into broad grade groupings by author. They also reorganized all the Spanish books, re-positioned the nonfiction shelves, and helped carve out a creative space. They pulled out all the nonfiction controlled vocabulary texts and checked all the shelves for accuracy. They moved every book in the library and with careful planning, it only took two volunteer work days.
