Costumes of book characters

Hi again
For our Book Week in August I want to dress up Monday - Thursday as a different book character as a lead in to the whole school being part of a book character parade on the Friday. I will have a daily draw of "Guess My Character" and the prize will be.... you guessed it, a book!
Have any of you access to book charcter costumes I could use. I promise to take very good care of them. Anything will be considered (well within reason).
Cathy, St Francis

I can't access the student librarian data

on the Nat Lib website. Habve asked them and been told it is very slow - but have been trying for days. I wanted to do flash books like Cathy ( St Francis ) for my librarians. Did anyone download and save the data and could they email it to me? Email addy is lisac@tepapapa.school.nz.

Thanks in advance.

NZ Book Council

Hi Everyone
In the past our school belonged to his organisation but felt they were not receiving any benefits so have not belonged for sometime. I am wondering how many of you could counter that argument and feel they receive great benefits through their membership.

I would like one/some authors or illustrators to visit our school during our Book Week in August and know this is possible through the Council but am wondering what other avenues might be open to me.
Cathy
St Francis

Work room

The before photo's, well a couple of them anyway. I will post up the other photos I have taken another time. We are in process of designing a new library at Kelston Boys, so we hope we will have a workroom twice the size we have now.

Hi Everyone
Thanks for a great day yesterday. Have come to school today and withdrawn 14 of our Jun Fiction titles, one dating back to 1977. A very graphic cover of an Iroquois Indian attacking a young 14 year girl set in 1692 called Castle Dangerous obviously long overdue to be withdrawn. Feel a bit nervous doing it as our previous policy has been a directive from management to withdraw no more than 10 at the end of each year. Of the 14 books only 4 have ever been issued and last issue was 2000 so I feel a great tidy could easily happen if I don't curb the urge.
Pauline I guess when we get our new library would be a good time to do a really good clean up. It is very easy to withdraw a book isn't compared to accessing it?
Cathy Mahoney
St Francis

Day Three Tasks

Task One – Prepare a needs analysis for the library users in your school.
Task Two - SCIS and/or Schoolscat
Use one or both of these to catalogue 10 books, and comment on how you found the process and the quality/ accuracy of cataloguing and subject headings

Task Three - Outline of Buying plan
Include:
a) Curriculum area(s) that classes are studying this year that need(s) strengthening
b) An area of recreational reading that could be strengthened e.g. more picture books with Pacific Island themes / characters.
c) An area in your reference section that needs strengthening
Task Four – Promote e- resource
Describe how you showed/ promoted one e- resources eg -EPIC, Te Ara to a student or a teacher
Task Five You can find the link for the NZ Education Gazette on the right hand bar of the blog.
We are looking for articles on excellent library practise in the 9 October 2006 Gazette. They are not all under one keyword so you will need 2 searches.
1. On the home page, click on articles on top bar.
2. This will take you to the article search. Type in “Library excellence”
3. For the second part of the article type in “heart of learning”
4. There is a third part of the article about Whangarei Boys High School so secondary participants may like to look at this article as well. Keywords:” boys reading”

Read the articles and list at least two points the articles make about schools with good libraries or good librarian practise.

Use and Promotion

You will have learned about lots of different and exciting ways you can promote your library to the school community - from book talks to creative book displays. We looked at different sites on the internet where you can get inspiration - the links are listed below if you would like to browse them in your own time;

ALA Banned Books Week

Bookcrossing

Voices from the Inglenook

State Library of Iowa

School Library Association

National Literacy Trust

Times Educational Supplement

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Scholastic

Author Posters

Schoollibrarydisplays.blogspot.com

Creativelibrarydisplays.com

Creative Arts Unlimited Inc.

Flickr.com

Hi, I'm finally adding my 'before' photos of my office/workroom. They are not pretty! Pauline reminds me that it is a work in progress; I know I will get the space a bit more sorted. Since the photos were taken, I have been able to get shelves added to the only available wall. You will note the large number of bins under the desk - I inherited 31 boxes of books to accession and process when I started in week 3 of term 1.

I have also included a photo of a pretty display we did in term 1 about the beach and sea (my daughter set it up for me). It has a sarong on the table as the material and has rolled up beach towels, and at one stage also had a swim cap and goggles. Unfortunately these went walking and I never found them. I had some shells from my collection, a sunhat, flutterboard, and included some photos of surf lifesaving etc from our collection. (the surfboard we decided was too big to fit!)

Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday

Caroline from Avondale Intermediate

Hi all, and homework

Hello all, thanks for the photos you have posted of your work areas. It has been great seeing what improvements you have made. I am cringing about posting my workroom photos because it is such a mess, but I will have to be brave and 'just do it'. My after photos will have to be done later on in the year, because at the moment it is a work in progress, and I am trying to figure out how to make it all work the best.
I have met with Pauline, my advisor, during the hols, and we have some exciting things planned for the physical presentation of the library. I have also just made up librarian booklets for our students, and am introducing them this week.
How are you all going with writing your procedures manuals? I am ploughing my way through things, as there was no instructions that I could find when I started in week 3 of term 1, so am having to figure it out as I go along.
Will have to post photos of workroom later, husband has been playing on computer, and have lost my photo folder!
Caroline from Avondale Intermediate