CCEP Grant to Bring New Library Resources!

Wow! I just heard this week that we received a CCEP Grant for $900 that will help us update our library resources. We will be able to add 20 Playaway Digital Audiobooks to our collection and hope to make these listening devices available to 3rd and 4th grade students soon. The photo above shows a sample of the Playaway for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. There is a protective case that holds the Playaway with lanyard, earbuds, and extra batteries. The entire book is contained in the small Playaway which has functions for volume, speed of reading, and bookmarking.

Our current offerings for audiobooks are all on audiocassettes which are rapidly becoming "antiques". The Playaways will help us begin replacing the tapes and moving into digital resources. Probably the next step will be downloading books from the Internet, but, for now, the Playaways should be very popular with students and teachers.

I wrote the grant with the cooperation of 3rd and 4th grade teachers and we targeted titles for those grades. It's a good start to updating the technology resources in our school and Playaways are very library-friendly in addition to kid-friendly. Thanks, CCEP, for awarding this grant!

Best Wishes for a good Thanksgiving to all of you.