Re: [LM_NET] Library Design help

["B. G. Corpening" <lmn5511@YAHOO.COM>]

Furniture selection should be interesting. Take my advice. After 27 years as a 
media specialist, put everything on wheels, including shelves. If it don't roll, 
you don't want it. Makes for better flexibility. Lots of storage space with 
lockable drawers that a master key will not open and most importantly, a restroom 
in your office or accessible from your office. You do have a unique challenge 
accommodating students ages 5 or 6 to 18 or 19 years old. Might require some 
movable walls to separate the young uns from the older ones. Keep in mind that the 
K-12 media center they build today may be K-5, 6-8 or 9-12 or any combination 
thereof down the road. Everything is fluid and dynamic in education and nothing is 
for certain. Monitor and adjust.
Brad Corpening, Media Specialist
Lexington Middle School
bcorpening@lexington1.net
http://www.lexington1.net/lv/lms/hp.nsf/HomePages/bcorpening


sf_177 <sf_177@OMALP1.OMERESA.NET> wrote: Our district (Strasburg-Franklin Local in 
Strasburg, OH) is beginning the
process of designing new and renovated facilities, funded in part by state
money and part by levy money. When the levy was put on the ballot, the voters
were told that there would be "one new library for k-12". This district has
always had k-12 housed in one building, but with two libraries -- one for k-6
and one for 7-12. I now have been given the task of working with the
architect to help design such a facility. I don't think I have ever
personally seen a library for k-12, and am having a hard time envisioning it.
Is there anyone out there who works in a k-12 library or knows of one in Ohio
that I could visit?
Any suggestions you could give me would be helpful!

Thanks,
Lisa Zimmerman

Lisa Zimmerman
Library Media Specialist
Strasburg-Franklin Local Schools
sf_177@omalp1.omeresa.net

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