Brewer's Book Reviews

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 Some of the guidelines that I am already using in my library include the engagement and access point. I have worked hard in the last year to cultivate a better, more well-rounded, relevant and up-to-date collection, because the average age of our collection was 2000 when I started last summer. I'm hoping that even when it is nonfiction our kids/students are after, they will feel more empowered and self-sufficient with a better collection to browse through for their reading needs.  Because we had lost many books during two separate floods, any of the books that happened to make it through the previous two librarians were hesitant to weed, which means out of the small amount of books we had in the nonfiction section, many of them were irrelevant. There were even science and medical nonfiction books that should have been replaced regularly, and instead had an average age of the 1990's. I've also worked to minimize distractions in the area so that students are able to focus, a...