All New for 2018![]()
The LMA is open for business! The G&L Theatre has all new floors, seats, stage and paint due to Irma’s visit in September, and is now ready for assemblies and performances. Most of the damage was caused by water blowing in under the doors. With the sloping theatre floor, the water had flowed throughout the space, damaging seats, stage, etc.
After the storm, our librarians had to box up the school’s entire book collection (over 28,000 volumes) in preparation for library repairs and renovation. Thinking ahead before packing up, they loaded eight library carts and several rolling bins with titles for grades PreK3-5. For the next three and a half months, the librarians continued to meet with all LS students in their classrooms on a weekly basis. MS students who had visited the library before Irma were able to keep their books until before the holiday break. Titles were ordered for those students who made special requests. With all of this we still managed to pull off an incredibly successful book fair!
When all the books were removed, the library was repainted, and received new carpeting, ceiling tiles, brick pavers in the courtyard, and some new windows. Our library staff and student volunteers worked over the break re-shelving the thousands of books, and parent Wendy Grossman created this lovely welcoming bulletin board.
In addition to the theatre and the library, there are three computer labs in the LMA, housing 18 iMac computers and an iMac teacher station in each. The library also has eight iMacs used for reference and research, and two iPads for searching for and selecting books. Thankfully, there was no damage to any of the computers nor the Network Room which houses our school’s server! All this equipment had to be carefully moved, and computer classes were temporarily relocated to the Lecture Hall in the Student Union. How lucky for all CSN that we have this beautiful new building!
All that’s left to do is complete a few finishing touches and arrange the furniture and computers in the labs, and the entire building is set for 2018 and beyond. Who said there’s no such thing as a silver lining?
