Gina Evers, director of Mount Saint Mary College’s Writing Center (left), and Mount students held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their Little Free Library on Thursday, April 10.
Mount Saint Mary College’s Writing Center recently established a Little Free Library on campus.
Situated on Powell Avenue, just outside the college’s main entrance, the Little Free Library contains several dozen books that members of the college and local community can borrow whenever they would like.
The books in the Little Free Library are made up of donations by Mount students, staff, and faculty for a book drive the Writing Center held this past December. More than 100 books total were donated to the Orange County Office of Aging and the Little Friends Learning Loft in the Newburgh Jewish Community Center, a Montessori-inspired preschool and kindergarten. The remaining books were used to jumpstart the new Little Free Library.
“We spent the spring semester literally constructing this,” said Gina R. Evers, director of the college’s Writing Center. “We looked for the right kind of plywood, had it cut to size, and came together a few times to put it together. We’re so excited to share this with the campus community and local community.”
The Mount’s Writing Center sponsors a variety of events for students throughout the year. The center’s tutors assist Mount students in all stages of the writing process, including brainstorming and organizing ideas; structuring sentences, paragraphs, and essays; strengthening argumentation; incorporating research; appropriate systems of citation; and improving grammar and style.