One woman creates library system in her retirement community [Video]

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Each shelf in the Fountains at La Cholla Retirement Community’s library is filled with books, each labeled with a sticker. If there’s a smiley face sticker, it belongs in the third floor library. The different colors indicate the books’ genre.

There’s three libraries in the retirement community and each are staffed with volunteers to help people check out the books. There’s no computer, just a collection of binders and labeled spreadsheets. One woman — Phyllis Newton — is behind the whole system.

“Before, they would just come, take a book and go,” she said. “And nobody knew what was gone or what people were reading.”

So when Newton moved into the community over two years ago, she wanted to get involved. Her love of reading stems from her childhood as she spent hours in the library. She saw the need for organization in the libraries at …