What a fantastic idea to create a community forum-- I hope you don't mind if a public library sister joins you?
I know that many of you are stretched very thin and have many varied demands on your time, but I want to make a request: when you are alerted that students have a project coming up, it would help us so much to have a heads-up so we can identify appropriate materials for their visits.
Some of you are already alerting us and we appreciate it so much! If we're short-staffed when students visit, we sometimes don't have the time or opportunity to give them the attention we would like to. However, when we have a few days to gather and/or identify materials prior to their visits, students have a more successful and positive experience. It will also help us to plan for the future in supplementing our collections for just such occasions; we have room in our budgets to help out this way and would like to cater to our community's students whenever we can. Would this be possible, or is it too tall an order?
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Kathleen McVey
YS Program Specialist
Meridian Library District
208-888-4451, ext. 1246
kathleen@mld.org------------------------------