For the first semester of the 2015-16 school year, the Media Center was located in a modular unit outside the front of the school. The renovated Media Center will connect the West Wing and the Main Building and is planned to open when students return from Winter Break. Photo by Zoe Peterson.
By ELLA SAMS – Senior Visuals Editor
With the Media Center still recovering from its move out of the school building at the beginning of the school year, it now has to pack back up and get ready to move back into its permanent location set for Jan. 7.
The Media Center will open to students in its new location in the Courtyard Building of Clarke Central High School on Jan. 7, 2016. After having to adjust to the temporary location in a mobile unit in front of the school while construction persists, the Media Center will, once again, have to pack up and move back in.
“Because we were at such a central spot last time, people would stop in and they would come and bring their lunch in, and we miss having that,” Media Center specialist Kacy Tedder said. “I’m sure it’s going to get kicked back up once we get the new spot.”
Members of the Teen Tech Team will assist with the move. Team members will pack and organize the books in the mobile unit to prepare for the move.
“We have most of the books packed and we haven’t taken out things we don’t need yet, so it’s going to be a pretty easy move,” Teen Tech Team member and junior Elizabeth Jurado said.
Once the Media Center is relocated and unpacked, the new location isn’t the only change the students will see.
“Once we get our new space we’re going to full bookstore model which means it’s not by the Dewey Decimal anymore, it’s by genre, so it’ll be like walking to a Barnes and Noble. There’s a romance section and a sports section,” Tedder said. “So it’s going to take us a little bit longer to get the books out, but we want to make sure we put our hands on every book and give it the appropriate label and subcategory.”
Jurado hopes that the new location will make the Media Center a place of congregation again.
“I hope that students have a place where they can be in the morning again, like socially and for studying,” Jurado said.
Tedder aspires for the new Media Center to be a central part of the school as it was before the move.
“Well we want it to be back to where we’re the hub of the school because our goal was for every student at Clarke Central to know that the library is a resource not necessarily just for books, but for life,” Tedder said.
