Help Us Help the Slater School District Library!

Today we write to our supportive Skylark Bookshop community with a heartfelt request to help one of our special book partners, the Slater School District library.

Slater School District is a very small Title 1 district located in Slater, MO, about 60 miles northwest of Columbia.  Quite soon after Skylark opened its doors five years ago, Slater librarian Angela Pointer reached out to ask about purchasing books in bulk through us.  We happily began working with Angela.  Over the years, Angela has ordered new, gorgeous, diverse books from Skylark for her students, and we love seeing her drop into the shop regularly.

Unfortunately, the Slater School library recently has suffered a great blow with water damage.  Angela shares the following details: 

At the beginning of the school year, I had noticed that a couple of the books students had chosen for check out felt as if they had been wet and smelled a bit musty. I didn't really think anything about it until I noticed a large water stain on the ceiling tiles in the corner of the library above one of the bookcases. When I walked over to check it out, I noticed that one of the bins I use for forward facing browsing was full of dark colored water. It was then that I realized we had experienced a major leak and all of the books on that set of shelves had been or were still sitting in water and molded. I had to record all of those books as deleted due to water damage.

I have been working on collecting holiday books from various cultures and religions around the world in an attempt to expand the experiences of our students and all of those were lost as well as all of our Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Groundhog's Day, Valentine's Day, and St. Patrick's Day books. With a limited budget, it is hard to replace books when you are trying to continue building a collection with new titles. Any support from the book loving community would be greatly appreciated by our students and school community.

This is where we hope our beautiful Skylark community comes in.  We dearly want to help Angela rebuild the Slater library, so with her permission and agreement from her administration, we are sending out a call for you to purchase books to replenish the Slater School library.

Here is part of Angela's wish list (if things really take off, we've got additional titles to add).  For every ten books that are purchased, Skylark will contribute an additional book.

Let's rally to get books into the hands of these Slater students!  Here’s that link one more time!