Six years ago Jessica Gilcreast accepted the position as the school librarian in a diverse urban elementary school (80 percent low-income student population). The library had a bare-bones automation system, block scheduling, and no library assistant. None of this, however, was her biggest challenge. Inheriting an institutional, cold, child-UNfriendly space with no budget has been her biggest challenge. In this article, she provides a year-by-year account of how she transformed her library from drab to fab and created a space for students (and teachers) to learn 21st-century skills.