There are times when a little noise in the library is perfectly acceptable.
Lesa Cole, youth services librarian at the Iola Public Library, watched with content as the gaggle of preschoolers flocked to the newest addition to the Family Place Center in the children’s section last week.
There, the youngsters excitedly got acquainted with the toy checkout stand, as if they were in an actual grocery store.
Plastic containers depicting canned goods or boxes of food were placed on the small conveyor belt as another preschooler punched buttons. An apparatus similar to…
