Library Ties

I’m home a little later than normal because of our monthly PTO meeting. It was the typical end of the year meeting with announcing officers for next year, thank those who had served this year, a state of the school presentation by the principal. I try to go to the PTO meeting each month. Why?

• I’m part of the PTO Finance Committee that determines the budget and funding for special projects. (which contributes several line items to the library programming!)
• The PTO support with volunteers for planning and running the book fairs which the profits are used to support the library media program.
• Our PTO is very supportive of the library media program and the opportunity to share with them through the teacher report what is happening in the library is a great way to build library advocates.
• Sometimes I get questions about what their child are reading or what resources are available in our parent collection. These are opportunities that might have been missed if not at an evening event.
• The visible presence of being in attendance shows the library media program thinks the work our PTO does is important and is there to help where it can!

Sure going home early would have been maybe a bit more appealing, but these parents are a key success factor in our library media program, so attending the PTO meetings is just another way to communicate with parents.

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