LYNN – It is one of the city’s oldest and smallest school buildings, and while the faculty of the Aborn Elementary School have found a way to use about every square inch of the 112-year-old structure for education, students are still left with a makeshift library consisting of portable shelves and a sporadic collection of books.With the help of General Electric and the city’s Inspectional Services Department, all of that is slated to change in the new year as plans to renovate a portion of the school’s third floor into a functioning library are underway.The GE Volunteers Foundation along with the local GE plant have joined forces to donate $20,000 to the school, earmarked entirely for the renovation of a third floor space once used for storage that now sits empty behind a multi-functional computer lab, science room, library and auditorium.The Aborn School featured a small library on its second floor for many years, but when Principal Anne Graul took over four years ago, she was forced to use that space for an additional classroom to house first grade and special education students.As a result, the shelves from the library were moved to the third floor computer lab, which also features a stage and a large area for classroom learning. Since that time, students have only been able to use the library one day a week, when parent volunteers man the shelves for a few hours on Wednesdays.Despite the challenges, Graul and the parents have helped the library grow, discarding old books and adding new books through parent donations and book fairs. Recently, the school was awarded $7,500 from the Tower Foundation to upgrade the school’s non-fiction collection.”It has really been a building process,” said Graul. “But now with the new library teachers will be able to take students in there when they want to do a project at any time, whereas now there may be a science class in there preventing them from using it.”Often the room is sectioned off into several parts, with computer lab students wearing earphones to block out the voices of science teachers speaking to students.The stage is used for school graduation and special events, such as Gov. Deval Patrick’s visit in 2008, all the while movable library shelves are stationed in different corners of the room.What students and teachers do not see are two additional rooms on either side of the functional space that Graul said were filled with 112 years of books and school supplies, tucked away never to be seen again.When she started at the school, she feverishly cleaned out those rooms, consolidating the useful supplies to one side, and opening up a space behind the auditorium stage for academic use.The problem is that the attic-like room is in need of work.With minimal lighting, no heat and creaky wood floors, moving a classroom – or library – into the room without a renovation was completely out of the question, and with the always-growing budget problems facing the city over the last few years, the school department had no money to make Graul’s dream a reality.With the help of then-Deputy Superintendent Catherine Latham, the city got in contact with GE and presented the library idea to the company.Familiar with the school district through projects at the Marshall Middle School and other city schools over the last six years, the GE Volunteers Foundation approved a $10,000 donation for the school, which was matched by the company’s Lynn plant.”We have been active with Lynn for many years,” said Carol Wallis, an engineer at GE. “I think it is going to be pretty amazing.”Graul has been working with Wallis and Project Manager David Hyde from GE on planning the project, and Wallis says the group hopes to begin the project during February vacation and have it completed in the Spring.”GE has been wonderful and they have been wonderful downtown, too. At first we weren’t sure if we would be able to use that space, but Inspectional Services have been very supportive,” she said. “We have used every inch