The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

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The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

Scot Scoop News

The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

Scot Scoop News

Life in the library

Carlmont has so many amazing programs and departments that some of them sometimes don’t get as much recognition as they should be getting. One of the main departments on Carlmont’s campus is the Library Media Center, commonly known as the library.

It may not seem like much at first, but there’s a tremendous amount of work done that not many people know about.

Librarians Alice Laine, library research and class assignments services, and Donna Feitelberg, textbook services, work together in order to keep the library running as the well-oiled machine that it is.

Laine has been working at Carlmont’s library for six years now. She has both teaching and library credentials as well as a master’s degree. Her job is to work with the students and teachers to supply students with the proper materials. “What people don’t understand is how much time collection development takes,” she said. Laine spends a large amount of time adding to the fiction and non-fiction book collections.

On the library’s website, Laine creates research pages filled with web links, book titles, newspaper articles, and more references for students working on class research projects in the library.

On the other side of the library, Feitelberg is working just as hard managing classroom textbooks. Her job is to distribute and collect textbooks throughout the course of the school year, and even into the summer. She works for 11 months, getting only July off for summer vacation. Feitelberg also manages the distribution and rotation of English novels for classes.

Feitelberg, claims that her “favorite question to be asked is ‘Do you ever get bored?'” It amuses her because it shows that, in reality, everyone thinks there is so little to do when the truth is, the library staff puts so much effort into managing the library to make the library system easier for all students and teachers. It just proves that all their hard work has paid off.

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The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.
Life in the library