Osceola students, from sophomores to seniors, may be caught off guard when walking into the school’s library. Stacks of sealed-off boxes pile up against the walls. Vacant shelves are grouped together in an otherwise empty office. There are notifying stickers posted all around the computers and the walls. A simple explanation for all of the changes is that the library is going under some major renovations after an expansion of the TV studio. Librarian Ms. Roush decided to rearrange the shelves and order new books to put on display. The arrangement, adds Roush, “wasn’t that easy.”

“I spent a lot of sleepless nights thinking about it,” says Roush. Not many books are on display at the moment (with the exception of popular ones being converted into movies, such as Mortal Instruments: The City of Bones or The Hunger Games), due to the construction.

“I really dislike it because I want to read autobiographies that aren’t even available for me to borrow,” said River Wells, 9^th grade. Another freshman, Jason Zappulla, shared his brief thoughts on the books being unavailable. “If the books need to be boxed up, then the books need to be boxed up.”

An additional adjustment, this time to the rules, is that no one is allowed to eat in the library.

“Students tended to leave their trash everywhere,” Roush said. “There was even a hamburger in-between the couch cushions.” Last year, according to a sophomore, lots of students ate in the library. Computer use is still unchanged; anyone can use the computers either before or after school hours, with the exception of Thursday afternoon (Ms. Roush is at the IAC committee). The librarian explains that about $10,000 were spent in buying the new books to add to her collection. At this point, no one is allowed to check out a reference book. If one of the reference books goes missing, then the school has to scrape up money to replace the entire set.

“They’re unbelievably expensive, I know,” Roush said.

As of now, no date is set for the finishing of the library’s redesign after construction, but everyone is allowed to visit whenever they’d like (as long as they have a pass).