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Crown Point library director highlights school partnerships, cardless access and summer-reading gains
Summary
Julie Wendorff, director of the Crown Point Community Library, used public comment time to outline partnerships with the school corporation and the community foundation — including cardless digital access for schools, a summer reading push that added hundreds of reading hours for some schools, and fundraising that returns awards to school libraries.
Crown Point — Julie Wendorff, director of the Crown Point Community Library, told the school board on April 27 that the library and the Crown Point Community Foundation partner extensively with the school corporation to expand access and reading supports for students.
"I just wanna come today as April being...Library Association month for celebrating school libraries," Wendorff said, and walked the board through several partnership highlights: cardless digital access for elementary and exceptional learners, a competitive summer-reading program that added "almost 750 hours" in some schools, and community fundraising and events such as a longstanding library mini-golf fundraiser that returns direct grants to schools.
Wendorff described the mini-golf fundraiser (running since 2013) as a source of school library support that typically returns prize dollars to participating schools: "$600 for first place, $300 for second place, and a $100 for third place," she said, adding a participation prize and noting the high school carpentry class helped build the course in 2014. She also highlighted collaboration on outreach activities, bookmarks and arts-month displays that place student work in the library.
Why it matters: The library's cardless digital-access program reduces barriers to databases and learning resources for students; administrators in the meeting thanked Wendorff for the partnerships and noted ongoing coordination with the district for next-year programming.
What happens next: The library and district staff plan continued coordination for summer-reading programming and resource access, and the board acknowledged the library's role in supporting classroom literacy and family engagement.
