Violette receives School Library Support Staff Award
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GUILFORD — The Maine Association of School Libraries announced recently that Charlotte Violette has been chosen for the School Library Support Staff of the Year Award. She is the library educational technician at Piscataquis Community Elementary School.
The association award is intended to honor educational technicians who have made a significant contribution to their local school library media program and-or have demonstrated commitment to those efforts at the state level. The nomination documents praise for Violette’s enthusiasm and ingenuity in the library. When faced with a budgetary challenge, she successfully wrote a grant and received $3,000 from author James Patterson to purchase books and a scanner for the school library. She encourages the use of technology and Internet resources in the library.
The PCES library was automated recently with Evergreen database software. Violette frequently attends the meeting of the Maine Balsam Consortium, the group responsible for the Evergreen software. She is also the assistant technology lead person for the school and is well versed in sorting out technological challenges. She works closely with teachers in planning library lessons that mirror what is being taught in the classroom as well as providing library materials that support those lessons. She makes sure that the school library is a warm, welcoming place for students and staff.
Violette received the award at the association symposium on April 30.