For the Halloween season, the library hosted their annual haunted library. The librarians created this exhibit to show off the library as an interactive space for students. 

“The haunted library is a space where we’ve created, to help the students see the library in a different way,” librarian Michelle Bellamy said. “It’s lots of fun, we have moving objects, props, lights and sounds, there are poems to read, books on the walls where they can create stories and then of course music while they do all of this and put-put and horseshoes after the academic things are finished.”  

The haunted library is a place where students can come down and do scavenger hunts and have fun but still learn actively. There are props hung up all over the library from big skeletons, to bats on the windows. There is a place where students can make up their own stories from the images they see and there are book posters on the windows for the students to get inspired for their next read. The inspiration of this came from the head librarian Melanie Massey. 

“She always comes up with lots of fun, different ideas to get all the students involved and to have the ability to learn in different ways,” Bellamy said.

The haunted library wasn’t always what it is now. It evolved from fun decorations and a fun way of presenting the library every year to more things for the students to interact with. Now it has all kinds of activities as well as many more decorations.  

The librarians hope to bring knowledge to the students that the library is a safe and fun place where they can learn and be comfortable with the locations of books.

“It’s a fun place for them to go so that they can enjoy themselves while they learn and they’ll get comfortable where they might not have seen different types of books,” Bellamy said.