Temple Beth Zion Built a Library!

Published on January 1, 2011 by Leora

The entire Winship Elementary School community strengthened their partnership with Temple Beth Zion’s GBJLC volunteer tutor team. This winter, two dozen tutors and their families got together to build something the school longed for- a library. Volunteers collected over 600 books to donate to the school. After years of limited resources, the school finally had the space and staff for a library, and the tutor team responded enthusiastically to the call for action!

Volunteer team leader, Kim Myers, had this to say about her experience:

“On Sunday, January 30, 2011 thirty volunteers from TBZ synagogue in Brookline helped in the new library at the Winship School in Brighton.  TBZ volunteers have been tutoring Winship students in reading for 12 years under the auspices of GBJCL.  The school library was opened this year with help from TBZ members. 

Members of all ages participated, from children who pasted book plates, to teens who sorted books by grade level, to adults who installed plastic covers on new library books, looked up Dewey Decimal codes and printed labels for the library.  In just two hours, volunteers processed over a thousand books and left a brand new bookcase donated by TBZ members stocked and ready for reading.

Principal Louise Kuhlman and Librarian Aaron Noll were so grateful for all we had accomplished, as well as for the books we donated that we are currently planning a return engagement.”

Thank you TBZ volunteers! The school really appreciates all of your hard work and dedication to their new library! Any volunteers interested in hosting your own event like this, or learning more about how you can support libraries in need, CLICK HERE to support the schools in the GBJCL.