A Schuylkill County library is making reading more accessible with the help of high school students.
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pennsylvania – Driving through Girardville, you can see this box in front of the Borough Hall.
This is a handcrafted lending library box by the students of the Schuylkill Technology Center.
The school has worked with the Ashland Public Library to place lending library boxes in places where books may not be easily accessible.
“‘I can’t take you to the library right now, maybe next week.’ Hey, walk around the block, there’s a library over there,” said Gary Glessner, Vice Chairman of the Ashland Public Library Board.
Lending library boxes are available to everyone. Just find a book you like, take it home, and whenever you’re done with the book, take it back to the box you got it from so someone else can enjoy it too. .
“This little girl who loves to read but has no way of accessing this library. And she said I can’t wait to tell that little girl from Girardville and she said she’ll be there every day because she loves to read. So it was,” Glessner added.
Lending library boxes are also at Gordon and Lavelle. Working with the Schuylkill Technology Center made the project affordable.
“For this program, carpentry students built the boxes, outdoor power technology students made the pole on which the boxes are displayed, and then early childhood education students helped add the logo to the front of the box,” Shannon Brennan said. , Director STC.
“Most of the material had been donated. Someone was cleaning out the garage and found lots of lumber and other stuff we needed to build it so it wouldn’t cost us anything,” Glessner mentioned.
Now that the boxes are complete, Ashland Public Library hopes these boxes will help people develop a love of reading.
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