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Colleen Simpson teaches at a decentralized library in the Lester J. Gates Middle School in Scituate. She wrote an article describing the layout and process of her day, but we dug further and discussed her involvement in the design and implementation of that space, through media literacy and research curricula. The sets of skills and hacks Colleen has gleaned from this decentralized space and responsibility get into areas of circulation, programming and administration.

Colleen's Secondary Column: Notes from the Middle: Curating a Middle School Collection in a Decentralized Library

The Gates Middle School 'Open Concept' Library on ScituateCommunityTV YouTube 

Rem KoolHaus, Seattle, and the History of the Central Library

MIT Architecture 

PBL - Project Based Learning

Oyez.org

Audiobook Listening Copy (ACL) on Libro.fm

Last Night at the Telegraph Club, by Malinda Lo

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daghter, by Erika Sánchez