Growing Our World Language Collection in the AISL Library

We are growing our World Language Collection in the AISL Library by adding 380 new Chinese titles! 
Earlier this year, AISL parent Mandy Sun helped us with the procurement and shipping of this order.

Not only will the new titles offer more breadth and depth to our Chinese language collection, but it also supports students by helping them find mother tongue books if they are Mandarin speakers, and supports students who are learning Mandarin.

Processing 380 titles by hand, called “scratch cataloguing” (as opposed to being able to import pre-formatted title records) is a painstaking process requiring many hours of work. To accomplish this task, AISL parents Ni Xin, Yu Yan Li, Mandy Sun, and Yang have helped with translating and cataloguing each new title. We will be processing these beautiful books over the next several weeks and adding them to the shelves as they are completed.

This is another example of how vital parent volunteers are to our community. When we moved back in to the library following the renovation last semester, parent volunteers were instrumental in helping us sort and reshelve 25,000 books - a Herculean effort that would have taken our four-person team much longer. If you pass through the library and see a group of parents bent over computers creating title records, please take a moment to thank them! We are all so grateful for our strong AISL community and parent volunteers.
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 今年我们在学校图书馆增加了380本中国图书。这是去年初，孙杨帮助从中国购买的。新书不仅将为学校图书馆的汉语书籍收藏提供更多的广度和深度，而且它还为中文母语的学习提供大力的支持。
       人工编辑这380本书，我们称作“ 划痕编目” （需要一项一项人工输入）。这是一个工作量巨大的工作，需要很多的时间。为了尽快完成，中国的家长倪新、杨、余燕丽和孙杨贡献出了大量时间，让新书尽快上架。我们预估到完全上架，还需要几周的时间。
       这是另一个重要的家长和学校合作伙伴关系的例子，并显示了家长志愿者在其中的重要性。上学期装修后，当我们搬到图书馆时，家长志愿者帮助我们整理了25000本图书。这是一项巨大的努力工作，花费我们团队更长的时间。如果你经过图书馆，见到一群家长弯着腰在工作，请花点时间来表示对她们的感谢！感谢学校的家长志愿者们！

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