By Angel Sabater |
Among the bookworms and library lovers, April is School Library Month and April 12 through April 18 was National Library Week. During student lunches A through D on April 14, students celebrated School Library Month and National Library Week by making their very own bookmarks and 3D bookmarks to celebrate their love of reading and the library.
“I came because I wanted to know what was going on,” sophomore, Kevin Venegas said. “I like that there is a variety of different color type of duct-tapes, but my favorite duct-tape that I used on my bookmark is the Hello Kitty duct-tape.”
There are some public schools that can’t even afford to have a library for their students, like Chicago’s more than 600 public schools.
More and more Chicago public schools are losing their budges to have librarians at their school libraries, which makes the library nothing more than a place to store books.
“We are celebrating School Library Month and the right to read,” librarian, Rae Downen said. “Libraries are not just a place to gather and hold meetings at, but a place where you get to know a different book and research.”
By celebrating School Library Month and the right to read, helps express students value of reading and learning.
“I came with my friends and I think it’s pretty cool to make bookmarks,” sophomore, Genevive Torres said. “But what I think about children or even adults out of the United States that can’t learn, because of their culture customs or how they can’t because it’s illegal where they live is that it’s plain wrong and people do have the right to read and learn.”
