Mrs. Fournier has been hard at work figuring out ways to get more money for books! In addition to the money the district allocates per student every year, Mrs. Fournier also won a couple of awards!
At the end of every year, each library has to inventory all of the books. Scanning over 12,000 books is no easy task, and it's especially hard when you think about all the books that might go missing or get damaged. She has to hunt all those down (and might throw a popsicle party or two to get the ball rolling). She also has to find all the books that are missing or overdue. Then, she has to really think about whether or not there's room for every book. Since we only have room for so many books, and we're always buying new ones, some have to go. Librarians have to find out how good a book is for kids, whether kids will like it, whether it's clean, and how often it's checked out. All of that information goes into whether or not Mrs. Fournier continues to let it be on the shelf. Books that we don't use anymore are donated to Libraries of Love, which helps build libraries in Africa. It's founder is a librarian right here in Round Rock ISD!
Mrs. Young was an immeasurable help in doing all of this last year. Mrs. Fournier and Mrs. Young used teamwork to get it done! They did such a good job, and had so few missing books, and took out the right books (called "weeding,"), they won an award! Forest North got $4000 extra to spend on books this year! Hooray!
Mrs. Fournier also served on a special committee for the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award in the past year. Almost every day, she would gets boxes of new books that wanted to win the award. She's allowed to do whatever she wants with all the books and she's donating them to the Forest North library! Dozens of them are already cataloged and in the collection! Woohoo!
All of this adds up to over 1,000 extra new books for Forest North this year alone! Hooray for reading!
