February DDS Library Newsletter

DDS Library February Newsletter   2/20/2020

DDS Library was very pleased to be the setting for the two performances of At the Table with Dr. King by the Mizel Museum. The multimedia tribute to Martin Luther King provided the students, teachers, administrators and district personnel a sensitive and inspirational look at Dr. King’s life and legacy. We were all engaged and enlightened!

At this writing … The much anticipated Quilt Project is still in the staging zone – the heirloom quilts are not yet hung up in the library. I have full confidence that we’ll get them displayed soon. We remain flexible!

The library was transformed into a breakfast burrito café on the sixth as we raised money to send our wonderful Nurse Latisha Cain to a banquet March 7^th (which recognizes the nominees for the Nightingale Luminary Award). Many educators from both DDS and Swigert not only purchased my homemade burritos (thank you!) but many donated extra cash to get Latisha the tickets! 

The library was happy to host a Geobee competition this month. I was impressed how well the students performed. My Colorado Geographic Alliance friends can rest easy about the state of geographic education with our young people!

I am continuing to scan all the books that were placed in the library by DPS Library Services over the summer. Unfortunately many of the books do not appear as part of our collection when scanned. I can manually place the majority of these titles into our inventory with just a couple of extra steps. The titles that don’t show up as part of DPS are put in a school mailer and sent to the kind and hardworking catalog crew at ETLS. I am trying to send just a couple a few a week - but I’m sure they are beginning to dread those mailers from DDS!

Six boxes of new books have arrived this week for the DDS library! These fabulous books are part of the “boost” grant and I am so excited to get them on the shelves.                                                                         Thank you again to DPS Library Services!

On Wednesday of this week the library was the impromptu setting for the much anticipated visit from the Denver Nuggets staff to honor Coach Williams for his MVT award. Nuggets veteran Ervin Johnson (and mascot Rocky!) excited and inspired the students with a lengthy afternoon visit … complete with cookies! We are so glad Aaron is being recognized … and we applaud his continued dedication.

Earlier this month DDS Library was awarded the A to Z grant from Denver Public Schools! The grant will allow us to host several parent/student/author visits here in the library, either as evening events or as Saturday lunch gatherings, and is called the Discovery Reading Project. The Discovery Reading Project will immerse our students and their parents/guardians into local and unique literary opportunities that they can enjoy here in the DDS library, and then build upon at home. Thank you Denver Public Schools A to Z Foundation!