This morning, my group went to the school in San Luis. We did a presentation to the school and made book marks and pictures related to the books. The school has 26 students, ranging from preschool through grade 5. One teacher manages all of the classes, so he has two connected rooms and divides his students into two or three groups for instruction. The only other person I saw there was cooking lunch and she also did the cleaning.
After we finished at the school, we continued to process donated books for the new community center library. Two women cleaned the books, which were rather dirty and often spider-infested. They added colored labels to the spines, glued in cards and pockets, and stamped them. The other two of the group made a simple shelf list on the computer, recording titles, authors, ISBNs, and genres. These books are now ready to be shelved at the library. There are three more big tubs of assorted books that have to be processed. Most of the books we are processing would have been weeded from any public library in the U.S. due to age or condition, or both. It's quite amazing to see how much is done here, with so much less than we have at home. Travel like this really makes me grateful for everything I have.
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