Excerpt: Potter-Thomas Elementary School students were not used to using their library.
The second-floor library space had been neglected in recent years and used for storage.
All of that changed over the last month as volunteers from throughout the region moved in to renovate the library and haul in new books and equipment.
"Every chance we get, we peek in there," eighth grader Ngozi Atwood said, describing the students' mounting excitement over the project.
The pre-K-to-eighth-grade school at 3001 N. Sixth St. in North Philadelphia was selected in the spring as one of 32 schools in 30 cities to get a new library as a part of the Target School Library Makeovers program, which helps provide new facilities and resources to schools that need them the most.
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