East Grand School District
Move to the new Granby Elementary School
NEW Granby Elementary School Library
Move to the new Granby Elementary School
In late 2023, the school library paraprofessional at Granby Elementary in the East Grand School District asked the Colleague on Call Team for help. In preparation for the move to a new school in August of 2024, she had a huge job to do.
West Slope Colleague on Call Anna Szczepanski met with the school principal and the library para to set goals and create a project timeline.
Then the hard work began: the team weeded over 12,000 outdated, tattered, and seldom-used materials from the library. We scanned each remaining item for inventory purposes and removed the lost and long-gone records from the catalog. The transformation from 22,237 items to 8,324 items means that the books on the shelves now are current, attractive, and interesting to the Pre-K through 5th grade students.
The new Granby Elementary School Library was revealed to the delight of students and families at the school’s open house in August 2024. After nine months of hard work, the new library space is ready for students to use for reading, collaborating, and learning.
Have a big project on your plate? Reach out to the Colleague on Call Team at CLiC: concteam@clicweb.org
Harvest University
New Library Project
Chelsea Coleman with Harvest University library staff.
Harvest University in Fort Morgan, which will begin in-person classes in 2025, inherited a large library collection from a previous university. Chelsea Coleman, Colleague on Call, made a visit to help prioritize and advise on the work to be done, including:
- Hiring a library supervisor
- Purchasing everything from library stamps to barcode scanners
- Weeding the collection to meet the needs of the students
- Developing a procedures manual and policies
- Determining collection and database vendors
- Creating signs and a library map
