This is the last week to check out books, believe it or not. Next week is the time for all books to come "home" to their shelves. This will let me check to make sure we have what we think we have, and make sure they're ready for next year. When I told some students that yesterday, I had a few react with surprise: "I thought Kepler was closing!" I was happy to reassure them that Kepler is not closing, no matter what they might have seen or heard. Fresno Unified School District has been our authorizer for five years, (the term will end at the end of June), but they decided not to be our authorizers for the next five years. This frees us to ask Fresno County to be our authorizer (our public hearing with them is this Thursday, May 17th in the afternoon - will I see you there?). In the meantime, we are finishing this year strong - keep an eye open for a post about maker projects in the library! - and thinking about what we can do now to be ready for a great next year. As you may know, our graphic novels are the most circulated books in our collection. I use them as a measure of how things are going. You can see in the images below what a difference between when things are checked in and when they are still out. On the left, when we came back from winter break, the shelves were beautiful and full. On the right, you can see now, near the end of the year, we have about 15 books on each of the three shelves. These few remaining miss their teammates! Let's finish well and be ready for next year. Bringing books back to their library home is a good start!
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