Our library relies on volunteers to keep it open, organized, and operational throughout each seven-hour school day. When I am not in the library, a volunteer is.

Patty Anderson
Shehla Anjum
Joe Banta
Warren Cole
Leslie Johnson
Anne Kessler
Sara Klever
Danni Koenig
Ravnit LaChapelle
Lori Ostrosky
Dotty Tessandore
Kim Tix

And our Tech Volunteer, Mark Friest

Thanks to Lorryn and Rochelle Wilhelm for the donation of new books!

The Library Closes on Friday, May 2. You’re welcome to come in and study but you may not check out new books.

LOST BOOKS:  A Perspective

On April 12th, 39 Steller students have a total of 58 books overdue! Are you one of these people? Overdue notices have gone out, so please locate your books and return them before intensives.

If you’ve lost a paperback, you may replace instead paying the lost textbook fine. (Hmmm…$8.95 versus $25 fine.) If you calculate 58 lost books per year at $25 per book, the cost of replacing these books is nearly 2/3 of the ENTIRE library budget. It’s hard to improve the library when most of our money goes to replacing lost books. Please help!!

Danyiel and I will collect fines this spring, and again next fall during registration.

Summer Reading
The list for the Battle of the Books is available at:  www.akla.org/akasl/bb/bbhome.html  The Municipal Library Summer Reading Program is always fun…even for grownups. Lists are also available at the Loussac Library.

You’ve seen this website before, and maybe even used it:  www.sled.alaska.eduNow this database has a new title, The Digital Pipeline. Go ahead and use it to search for information in newspapers, magazines and other sources.

Career Resources Corner

Did you get a scholarship? If you did, please tell Karen Emmel. Anchorage School District likes to have an idea of the award amounts received at each school. They’d even like to know about the awards you don’t accept. Just tally up all your awards (not counting the $50 check from Aunt Sally…) and give a single dollar amount to Karen, e.g. Janie was awarded $50,000.Thanks, Everyone!
Karen Emmel