WI 2017-18 - INFO I699-001: Independent Study: Nebinger School :Day 32, :3/1/2018

I did not get as far as I had hoped today. Since the Friends of Nebinger have plans to order new shelving for the teen/YA section, I spent some time moving two bookcases out of the Teen/YA section and into the Early Reading/Storytelling section, where two bookcases were missing (they had been drafted into service in the non-fiction section some weeks prior.)

Just as I settled in to work on the  JF N-M section, one of the custodial staff, JT, came in with two other persons. The two other persons were the Philadelphia Public School Painting Prep team. A while back two persons stopped in to the library with notepads and took a very careful look at the condition of the walls. They had mentioned there was a plan to repair the walls. Today's crew did that, they scraped some areas of wall in preparation for the next section of their project: painting the school, including the library. I did not hear a specific date for the library painting, but the project begins next Monday. I will need to check in with the Nebinger Friends to make sure that they are aware of this and that there will be plans to protect the newly purchased carpeting and seating.

I also had an opportunity earlier in the day to meet with the Penn Libraries Community Outreach Librarian, Ancil G. We talked a bit about the project, including the plans for donatng some surplus bookends to Nebinger to fill their deficit.