CISD to open library two nights per week

Clarendon CISD announced this week that it will open the CISD Library to the public two evenings a week. 

As one phase of its “Teaching an Old Town New Tricks” project, CISD is collaborating with the Burton Memorial Library and the Burton Memorial Friends of the Library  Family Literacy Program to provide additional resources to the public for promoting adult and family literacy as well as technology skills.

Starting Monday, November 27, the CISD High School Library will be open from 5:15 to 9:15 on Mondays and Thursdays.  Ms. Sabrina Burrow will be in charge of activities.  At this time, patrons may use the reference resources as well as available computer programs.  In the very near future the library will receive six new computers which will offer a variety of software applications, including those for learning to read or for earning the GED.  Patrons, however, will need to continue to use the Burton Memorial Library for checking out books.

Plans are also being made to offer a children’s reading hour for pre-schoolers after the first of the year.

This collaboration is being made possible through the $674,698 Technology Integration in Education Grant  that CISD received earlier this year.

Those who need further information should contact Ayesha Abdullah, who heads the adult literacy program, or Carolyn Blackerby at Burton Memorial Library (874-3685)