Learwood Eighth Graders Are the Best!

Once again this year, we had a great time with the eighth grade class from Learwood Middle School! Over three hundred of Avon Lake’s finest young people came through the Library on August 28 to learn about Library resources and services.  They are immediately putting to work much of what they learned on their Washington D.C. Monuments project.

We put them through ten stations to learn about using the catalog, electronic resources, the Reference department, etc.  They seemed to soak it up!  We sure learned a lot and had a blast with them.  We look forward to seeing more of these sharp young people in the Library.

Learning about Dewey

More Learwood Pictures

I’ve been asked to post some pictures of the Learwood students here at the library Thursday afternoon, so here’s some young people in the YA Stop.  It seems this software doesn’t let me post more than one picture per post, so I’ll follow up with a second one.

Another great group of Learwood eighth graders

 Here they’re learning about library cards and about borrowing (and returning) materials.

Learwood Eighth Graders Are OK!

A group of Learwood students learn how to use the Ebsco databases to find articles for their research.

We had a terrific time with the eighth graders of Learwood School today. We’re all a little horse but happy. We had two sessions each with about 135 students divided into groups of twelve or thirteen. We put them through a circuit with stations to learn about using our catalog, our reference services, two of our electronic databases, the Dewey Decimal system, circulation, even how we receive and process books before putting them out on the shelves.

They were bright, friendly and fun! We really enjoyed having them here and learned from them.  And we hope we’ll see much more of them in the year ahead and through their school careers. Hopefully, they like us (almost) as much as we like them!

Thanks to the teachers and volunteers who brought them to us and shepherded them around and to the Friends of the Library who provided cookies and juice to all.

Eighth Graders Everywhere!

We are psyched! Tomorrow 270 eighth graders from Learwood School descend on us to learn how to use the library for research. They are about to prepare a major research project on Washington D.C. and we’re going to show them how to do the research part of the project.

We’ve got 10 stations set up across the library and we’ll move students between them. We’re covering everything from Dewey to electronic databases to encyclopedias and altases to refreshments (brain fuel, we hope!). Our young adult department computers will be reserved for a demonstration most of the morning and early afternoon.

There will be beautiful, energetic teenagers all over the library but not much quiet. We’re prepared. We’re energized. We’ve got our shushers turned to the off position. Bring ‘em on!