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Money!

If I gave you $3,000-$6,000 for your library, what would you do with it?

I actually have this wonderful problem, and I have a meeting with the principal next week to discuss how I would like to spend it. We don't have a budget at all, so this is quite huge. However I don't want to necessarily spend it on books.

I would love to hear your dreams and ideas!

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Farrow on April 11, 2012 at 3:18pm

Wow!! Definitely an amazing problem to run into. :) In my dist. we're thinking a lot about collaborative learning spaces and the way our rooms/libraries are arranged. You may have seen a lot of articles on this subject recently; it seems to be a hot-button issue these days. This is a free e-book on the subject that might be helpful since you said you weren't necessarily thinking about just books: http://www.educause.edu/LearningSpaces One really cool we like a lot is the Idea Paint: http://www.ideapaint.com/work/ideapaint/

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