FABULOUSLY FUN AND WICKED WAYS TO ADD

SOME SPARKLE TO YOUR LIBRARY

Colleen DukeMesquite ISD

cduke@mesquiteisd.org

http://seabournrocks.pbworks.com/

What this session is NOT….

Boring stuff you MIGHT use someday

Me reading you a PowerPoint

A MUST be nice… session

Quote I LIVE by:

Don’t wait until it’s perfect to try it.

Debbie Swartz- Library Technology Facilitator- MISD

What this session is…(I hope)

Helpful stuff you can go back and use right now

Time to really talk to other librarians about what we DO to keep the library the most POPULAR place on campus

A starting point of putting some SPARKLE in your library

What makes my library POPULAR?

It’s a fun place for kids AND teachers to hang out

It’s never TOO serious

I have fun and that is CONTAGIOUS!

It’s so much more than checking out and research

1. Library Helpers

2. Show off new books to teachers first

3. Put treats and notes in teachers’ boxes

4. Keep administration informed about the happenings in the library

5. NO MORE NEWSLETTERS- try Glogster, animoto, go animate

6. Send fun videos just because…

Try Jib Jab

7. Apple Cider in the Library for teachers

1 bottle Apple juice- 64 oz, 1 box Hot Tamales in a crockpot

8. Use EVERYTHING to promote books- screen savers, wall space, announcements, start every faculty meeting with a

booktalk.

9. Goodbye song

10. Be more than a Wal-Mart Scanner- teach kids and teachers self service for checking out.

11. Send books down in the morning in a basket to be checked in

12. 12 days of Christmas in the Library

13. Invite yourself EVERYWHERE, site based meetings, PTA, ect

14. Don’t get stuck in a it must be a library lesson rut

15. Use teacher vocabulary so that they see you as a teacher.

16. Really CELEBRATE Children’s Book Week

17. Be a YES person (Thanks Mary)

18. Less stuff, more people

19. Lunch bunch book club, before school, after school- whatever works

20. Teacher Book Clubs- Read Adult Books

21. What’s New in Children’s Literature

Staff Development

22. Show, Don’t tell. Actually do lessons with kids using books.

23. Get outside the Library and see what’s going on in your school

24. Think Dust

25. Remember that you wanted this job. For me, it’s the job I was meant to do. Yes, we are all overworked and

underappreciated. We are not the only ones. Teachers, Principals, and all other staff are busier, under more

pressure, and working harder than ever. Be the SPARKLE in their day!

Fun in the Sun Reading Day

Undercover Readers

Buddy Reading

Breakfast Book Bunch

12 days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas

Christmas Tree Cones

You can’t BEAT a good book

Christmas

Camp Out with a good book

Smore Books

Boy Scouts

Knot Tying with Boy Scouts

Camp Out with a Good Book