About+Us

Welcome!
We are a group of Ayers staff and parents whose mission is to revitalize the Ayers Ryal Side School Library. Our library opened 12 years ago. As part of the Ayers renovation, the library was constructed from the original school's gym. The library has served the Ayers community as an instructional center that has hosted seminars, clubs, bookfairs, meetings, movies, and performances. As we continue to find more and more ways to use our library, we recognize that our community will benefit from some library TLC.

To that end we are developing long and short term goals and a detailed plan to get there. To visualize what we hope to accomplish, I have organized the goals we discussed into four "stages." This is not meant to be a time line. Rather, it is meant to help us sort our projects in doable chunks. It is not carved in stone. We will tweak as we explore our options.

__Stage One__ of our vision includes the following:
 * Turning the story steps into a reading castle complete with banners and portable cushions with washable covers.
 * Creating several flexible activity areas to accommodate a number of small groups at one time.
 * Adding small carpeted areas for cozy browsing and reading.
 * Exploring fund-raising options.

__Stage Two: __
 * Apply a base coat of paint to the walls.
 * Apply or paint mural / illustrations to the walls.
 * Expand the instructional area by removing three shelving units from the picture book section and consolidating the books into the remaining two sections that will be set parallel to the nonfiction wall.
 * Move The librarian's area into the server room.
 * Move the circulation area to the current librarian's area.

__Stage Three: __
 * Move the copy machine to the area by the upper grade corridor door.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #363fc8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Move the bank of computers there as well.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #363fc8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Install a pull-down screen above the new circulation area.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #363fc8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Move one fiction unit to the area currently occupied by the copy machine and computer bank.

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #363fc8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Stage Four: __
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #363fc8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Update library collection by investing in current titles, replacements for worn books, and material to support curriculum changes.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #363fc8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Apply reading level labels to collection.