Grants will help school libraries beef up their bookshelves
Apple on top of school books.
WINDOW ROCK
Two libraries on the Navajo Nation will be able to update their collections this summer.
Navajo Pine High School and Navajo Preparatory School received grants from the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries.
The foundation is dedicated to helping fund and update library books and media resources in low-income communities, with hopes of encouraging students to get involved with their libraries.
With state funding cuts, librarians Nelia Artieda and Marilyn Stucky saw the need in their libraries and knew they had to find other funding.
Both came upon the foundation and with support from their bosses, applied for the grant.
The grant will help each school in very different ways.
In a room of 8,000 books, said Artieda, the librarian at Navajo Pine High School, most of them date back to 1996.
“Most of the books we have here are old,” she said. “We should have enough resources to encourage students to read.”
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