VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — When Shelli Christiansen lived in California, she worked as a librarian. Not long ago she moved from California to Vancouver to be closer to her grandkids when she saw a job posting at Cornerstone Christian Academy.
“It’s such a charming place. I applied for a job and I got it. And the wonderful thing was, they needed a library,” she told KOIN 6 News.
She got to work and “put timeless hours into all of this, gathering bookcases that are scattered around, finding books that had been put in storage. Just kind of putting it together to see what we needed to do from there.”
All the efforts paid off as the little library was ready to welcome students at the beginning of this school year. And the students are all in.
“I actually helped set up these books in a stack, and also the very clumpy books,” said 2nd-grader Jaya Kodi.
“It’s like an entire new world,” 4th-grader Camden Carrol said. ” You can have educational stuff, you can explore, you can adventure. You can listen to comedy about the world mostly.”