Parent Shelf

Hello, Friends,

I have one idea for you today. You may have some books sin your library that are a little too old for your students, but very suitable for parents. Consider setting up a shelf for parents to check out. We have one and here is how it started.

We are fortunate to have a part time counsellor who had a few books for parents to use. She asked if we would be able to process them and set up a special place for parents to check them out. She would refer parents to the library as needed. We agreed that we could work with her on this and actually bought a few of the books she felt were important for our school community. After that, parents have donated books that were also great additions to the Parent Shelf. We have promoted this in our weekly school newsletter.

The spine label has a capital ‘P’ above the Dewey number to indicate it is shelved in a special place, but they could also be shelved later on the regular shelves if we decided to make that change.
Our shelf looks like this currently.

We don’t have a lot of books, but as they come through, we add to our collection.

If you want to set up something similar, but don’t have the funds to do so, check with your church community. It may be that parents who have raised their children may donate books for your project.

Have a great week,

Audrey