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One Chicago School Helps Another Get Its First LibraryChicago’s Vaughn Occupational High School—attended by students ages 15 to 21 with cognitive and physical disabilities—got its first library December 3, thanks to the joint efforts of its students and those at Northside College Prep School, one of the city’s top public schools.Northside junior Emily Matthews said she was angry last year when she first learned that Vaughn, just a few miles away, didn’t have a library. “The central part of a school is the library, in my mind,” she said in the November 28 Chicago Tribune. So Matthews and 55 other students from both schools spent a year writing grants, sending letters to prospective donors, and cataloging more than 1,000 donated and purchased books. Although teachers at Vaughn had kept classroom libraries, the school never had enough funds for a central library; now the school system has agreed to fund a librarian/reading specialist position for the library. “They took on a real-world problem and solved it,” said Christine Olsen, a Northside teacher who helped supervise the project. “This is what you live for as a teacher.” Posted December 8, 2003. |
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