To say it’s been an interesting school year so far would be an understatement. This has definitely been the most challenging year of my career. I consider myself lucky to be working at a school that has the resources and leadership to keep us safe. I know that many, many schools have been left behind. But even with that, this year has been exhausting. I’ve had to almost completely rethink and reimagine how I run my library program. This while also living with the constant low-grade anxiety of living in a global pandemic.
This is a multiple post series. In this first part, I want to give you an overview of what my school has been doing during COVID and how my library’s physical space has adapted. For the second post, I’ll talk about programs I’ve done to encourage reading, plus collaborations with teachers. In the last post, I’ll share how we’ve adapted our makerspace activities to make them work in our current environmen