Smith Farm Media Coordinator Invites People to Take a Gander at All the New Books

Smith Farm media coordinator Brierley Ash with principal Donald Hampton

Lisa Nieters, Natalie Strange, Holly DuBois, Brierley Ash

When the school year starts, Smith Farm Elementary School will open its doors to students for the first time. In the days leading up to that, media coordinator Brierley Ash has been ordering books for the new school and placing them on the shelves of the media center as they arrive.

With the help of Jackie Pierson, the school system's program manager for library media services, Ash ordered 10,000 books. As she took them out of their boxes, it has been hard to resist the urge to spend time looking into every book, she said. If she had, she would still be at it.

On Wednesday, she invited media coordinators from other schools and other guests to drop by to help her christen the media center.

"This is like librarian heaven," Ash said. "It's amazing to pick all these books."

She's looking forward to the start of school. "Once we get the kids in, it will be really fun."