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Library Bulletin Board: Becoming a Beacon of Light

Reading and Library Promotion: Tangram and Books for Free

To kick off 2020, we have set up a reading and library promotions activity for the community. Books for Free and a Tangram play and display activity.

We get book donations from many agencies and generous people. We first offer these books to the community for free. Then we send them off to recipients far and wide!

Grant Snider's comic is inspiring. He has one made for New Year's where tangram puzzles were used to suggest possibilities, wonderment and trust to processes. Using it as base for the reading promotion, I set up envelopes for Tangram puzzles that anyone from the community can make. 

It is easy to do. Simply follow the Imagine - Play - Wonder structure ( a format I use for my workshops) and anyone can create art, stories and ideas! It is also a Makerspace activity if you think about it. And for students who need a brain break, they can play on the puzzles and learn at the same time.

To complete the display, I bring out books about puzzles and spatial thinking. I am positive that these books will be borrowed. Well, 4 out of 10 is the standard ratio.

Library Bulletin Board for Christmas 2018

Library Bulletin Board: READ this Summer

Posting a photo of our bulletin board in the library before the new academic year commences.

Relax! Enjoy! Achieve! Discover! READ this summer.

The Christmas Tree in the Library

And my dream has come true!

We have book Christmas Tree in the library!

To decorate the tree, I sent word to the school community how they can help. Here are three simple ways:

You can help decorate the tree by:

a. Writing on a cut out Christmas ball your best read for 2014 to put in the tree;

 

b. Making an origami star (I have a paper and pattern) to put in the tree;

 

c. Donating a Christmas tree decoration or trimming which you think is apt for a book Christmas Tree in the library.

 

I will be posting more photos of our book Christmas Tree.

Spread the Book Love this Valentine's Day

Our Bulletin Board Display for February

Tell us what books would make for a good reading pair. 

There are books that go well together. When, after reading one, you'd like to follow it up with another that's probably written by the same author; the same genre; or something entirely different.

For example: Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Hawking's The Brief History of Time;  Yang'sAmerican Born Chinese and Giaman's The Graveyard Book.

Tell us! Intrigue us! 

Make us want to read those books!

Also, tomorrow is International Book Reading Day and I'll be giving away some books. 

Christmas Displays @ the Library: Deck the Walls and Doors!

Books about Christmas / Novels set during Christmas

Book reviews by students written on Christmas ball cut-outs.

 I love it that they write what they think about the books they read.

Library Bulletin Board: From Tablet to Tablet, March 2013

Last January 23, I posted a photo of our library bulletin board having only three images on the evolution of the book.

It looks like this now -

Reading Table: Books to Read & Love

Books pulled out from Teacher's Resource Collection

Books from the Fiction Collection

Library Bulletin Board: Tips & Updates

Library Bulletin Board: From Tablet to Tablet

Pompom Bookmarks and Book Covers

The green monochrome pompom is Zoe's. Mine is the multicolored pompom bookmark.

  Always on the look out for library and reading promotion ideas, I stumbled upon a DIY pompom bookmark in Pinterest. Following the link ans instructions, I tried it at home. Success!

It's very easy to make the pompom bookmark. It only takes ten minutes. Trimming off the edges need careful snips to achieve a fluffy round pompom. I'll come up with ten pompom bookmarks. When school opens in January 2013, the bookmarks will be our tokens for early book returners and borrowers. Let's see if the teens like the give-aways.

Another new thing we're doing at the library is the use of book stands that show off the covers of books when displayed. The spine only shows the book title. For media induced clients, just reading the title won't work. Book covers are visual stimuli.

Reading Alerts!

I like pulling out titles from the shelves and gathering them up in a list. This is one way to promote the library's collection, bridge information gaps and enrich concepts taken up in class. Here's a reading list I recommended to a Humanities and Filipino classes in school. I used the teachers' unit plans (lesson plans) as basis for selection.

Filipino10 recomreads from Zarah Gagatiga

Humanities worldwar2 2 from Zarah Gagatiga

I then emailed the list to teachers so they can post it in their classroom. As a follow through, I set up a special reading table for the books recommended in the list.

Christmas Reading Table

Merry Christmas! And have a happy year of reading in 2013!

Library Display: The Reading Table

My reading and library promotion strategies are in a roll!

Apart from sending recommended reads to the school community, I set up a table by the circulation counter. This table has selected readings from the Teacher Resource collection. Book covers have a special appeal. Then again, never judge the book by its cover thus, the annotated list of suggested good readings for the term.

Another book display I worked on last term was the graphic novels table. The low table in the reading area where couches  for easy reading are stationed has graphic novels splayed over it. Twice a month, the graphic novels are replaced by newer ones or those up on the shelf. Students read them at the library. And yes, they borrow the graphic novels too.

Library Bulletin Board: Start of School

This is how the library bulletin board looks like at our school. There's a low sofa below it where students were seated at the time I took the photo thus, the big head room at the top.

Anyways, I wanted to drum up the idea of a library for all but with respect for everyone using the library, including the staff, of course. So the left frame says it all: The library is a shared space. Students are free to write on the thought bubbles.

The middle frame is a cloud tag of  the school community's principles, belief's and ethos.

The right frame has the library's motto: A learning community reads. A reading community learns. Featured for this month is a book review of one of the students in grade 12 on Dianne Wynn Jones' book, Howl's Moving Castle. It's a review that connects the book with the animated movie by Hayao Miyazaki. Every month, the library will post reviews and recommended reads from the community.

Library Signages

Found some good ones via Tully News Info.

School Library Display: Graphic Novels and Art Books Corner

One way to get teens reading -- book displays!

Having set up two shelves of graphic novels and art books increased readership and book circulation. Will make this a regular fixture in the library.