Tri-County Career Center(TCCC) is a Junior/Senior High School located in Nelsonville Ohio that offers 18 career programs to juniors and seniors from various high schools located in following counties:  Athens, Hocking and Perry.  The TCCC Library is one of SERLS’ newest Enhanced Member.  Welcome!  I am very excited at working with library director Stacy Simonyi.  She is a very talented librarian and her library reflects that fact!  The library for this school is not far from the main entrance and is flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows on two sides, which are always filled with great diplays which are changed quite often!   The library is neat, clean and arranged in a very ”cool” and appealing manner for both teens and faculty.  The books are displayed in face-forward style on the shelves, making the very easy to find and eye-catching to students.  Slat wall units also allow for a lot of great display space.  On these slat walls you find displays of new books and even some required book reports created by students and the book they reviewed (nice touch!).  On top of one of the bookshelves you will find folded book designs.  Circulation has exponentially increased and to-date this year, has already beaten the total for last school year!  Stacy is hosting book discussions for both students and faculty which take place in the middle of each nine week period.  I enjoyed watching the students come in and ask questions, return books and utilize the library.  I asked Stacy what is the biggest challenge of being the Library Media Specialist at TCCC, and her answer came quick and with a smile “TIME!”.  We need to remember that many public school librarians run everything in the library and are the only staff member and may or may not have student assistance!  (Next time you see a public school librarian or library aide, give them a pat on the back!)  Stacy, I thank you for allotting some of your busy time for my visit!

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