WASHINGTON, Ill. – A teacher in the Washington School District may very well be on a one-man mission to save the Sunnyland branch of the Washington District Library.
Jace Mansfield started “Mansfield Mondays” at the Sunnyland branch, with hopes that his students will meet him there.
“We’ve had a few kids check out library cards for the first time,” said Mansfield. “Last Monday, most recently, I had twelve students in there. We just hung out, checked out a few books, ate pizza, I read to them a little bit. It was a fun time.”
Mansfield tells WMBD’s Craig Collins the library was important in his growing up, so helping to keep the Sunnyland branch open is something he wants to help with.
“The library is just chock full of resources, ones [the students] wouldn’t even think of,” said Mansfield. “They’ve got subscriptions to a wide variety of magazines and other publications. You can use some of their resources. Sometimes you have to pay into like a database in order to use different research sources, so it’s a great place to do some research.”
Mansfield does it Mondays after school until about four o’clock or later.
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