Freya Sewell Capstone

Posted by Freya Sewell in Capstone · Ustaris/Spry · Wed on Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 9:20 am

Over the course of the year I started, maintained, and developed a small school library for SLA with a grant from the Laura Bush Foundation. Our small library aims to give our students a space for leisure and serendipitous discovery. Pursuing that goal led me to numerous strategies with varied sub-goals, which slowly built together into an unachievable ideal of what I wanted to leave behind after my time in SLA. However, the continued achievement of that goal isn’t all up to me, it’s a task for all future members of the SLA community to uphold, maintaining cleanliness and organization is crucial, and encouraging that without being in the building has been one of my biggest goals. Read all about the simultaneously slow and panicked rapid struggle that established SLA’s library, and when you’re done, stop in, look at the books, and enjoy the bean bag chairs— and remember to throw away your trash and put your books back where they belong. :)

Part of the cataloging spreadsheet I made for the library. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u_BqU27OrElOSyY9_vLSJ3mr7-tCg9W-Khv6guLtwlw/edit?usp=sharing

Part of the final purchasing list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W4DJd6YzhuRd1Neo8KWOrdWFIeLsr_fAyknsjBNRTU0/edit?usp=sharing

A picture of the end shelf early in the year, just starting to get filled in with books.

An example of fully organized shelves in the library

Bibliography

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15C1srdgnyDYzfr7hlJ5QTlWx-3DW0-gpfhL1skcIOWs/edit?usp=sharing

If anyone decides to continue working on the library in the future, here are my basic thoughts and plans. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pbZ2xOVqKuJXPFMHZDHuOQC0Q8LsYQyElESTZl3tuIU/edit?usp=sharing

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