MCPS libraries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Library is another gathering place to eat lunch since cafeterias are apparently not for eating these days, not enough space to fit thousands of students in high schools but even if cafeteria could fit a few hundred, students eat in other areas of the school.

Do they clean the library each day after students use the space to eat lunch?

The mice and bugs take care of the crumbs.

[Anonymous]

gross

[Anonymous]

who reads the library books in the library anymore in HS? Serves as another cafeteria.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile over at the County libraries:

County libraries cull 3,500 foreign-language books from shelves
Russian, Farsi and Bengali collections cut for budget, circulation reasons

moco360.media/2024/09/20/county-libraries-cull-3500-foreign-language-books-from-shelves/

[Anonymous]

Unfortunate. Maybe someone will start a little library for foreign language books?

[Anonymous]

The MS library is so sad and empty. They don’t even have enough books to fill the shelves, so there are many empty shelves in the MS library. The walls aren’t decorated; it almost looks like what I’d expect a prison library to look like. The walls are bare. It’s a huge change from our ES library, which was very welcoming, decorated, and filled with many books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The MS library is so sad and empty. They don’t even have enough books to fill the shelves, so there are many empty shelves in the MS library. The walls aren’t decorated; it almost looks like what I’d expect a prison library to look like. The walls are bare. It’s a huge change from our ES library, which was very welcoming, decorated, and filled with many books.

What middle school are you talking about? Ours is huge and filled with books, posters and lots of life!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The MS library is so sad and empty. They don’t even have enough books to fill the shelves, so there are many empty shelves in the MS library. The walls aren’t decorated; it almost looks like what I’d expect a prison library to look like. The walls are bare. It’s a huge change from our ES library, which was very welcoming, decorated, and filled with many books.

Volunteer to go help decorate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The MS library is so sad and empty. They don’t even have enough books to fill the shelves, so there are many empty shelves in the MS library. The walls aren’t decorated; it almost looks like what I’d expect a prison library to look like. The walls are bare. It’s a huge change from our ES library, which was very welcoming, decorated, and filled with many books.

Volunteer to go help decorate

+1. Goodwill has tons of stuff if school allows items from outside. Books and posters can be found at used bookstores or cheap online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you (or your child) rate child's school library? Do your children use the library at school aside from the 1-2x/week visit with their class in ES? How about MS? And in HS?

Dufief Elementary Library - 3/10. Needs better management and organization.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The MS library is so sad and empty. They don’t even have enough books to fill the shelves, so there are many empty shelves in the MS library. The walls aren’t decorated; it almost looks like what I’d expect a prison library to look like. The walls are bare. It’s a huge change from our ES library, which was very welcoming, decorated, and filled with many books.

My DD went to Eastern, and the library was her happy place. The librarians were kind and welcoming, suggested books based on things she checked out, and asked her to help out with displays of new and interesting older materials. She’s a senior now, so this was a few years ago, but those librarians were absolute gems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you (or your child) rate child's school library? Do your children use the library at school aside from the 1-2x/week visit with their class in ES? How about MS? And in HS?

Dufief Elementary Library - 3/10. Needs better management and organization.

That's really harsh. Are you an expert in library science?

Perhaps you can volunteer your time to help reshelve books, if that is what you feel makes the media center disorganized.

[Anonymous]

I like the one in our ES. It was my K Dad's favorite "special" - they loved walking over as a class and picking out a book to bring home.

[Anonymous]

As my dc transitioned from es to me to he, libraries seemed to deteriorate in importance. Probably because high schoolers are busy and they have public libraries for actual research

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunate. Maybe someone will start a little library for foreign language books?

Nobody wants it:

"Most of the books had not circulated in five years, Brown said. Books are typically culled after two years of languishing. She said the language collections were given extra time to gain circulation. "