Reflections on Library Lovers Day 2020

Library Lovers Day comes around so quickly at the start of a school year. You start the term and BAM you need to have something organized.

We did "Blind Date with a book". We wrapped the books in brown paper bags and wrote the barcode and some key terms on the front of the book.

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Each student that borrowed a "Blind Date" book also got a little love heart chocolate. We had over 80 borrowings, although we haven't measured if they actually read the book in full!

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An affirming exercise was the "Library Lovehearts". Throughout the day the students could write us a love heart. These hearts were then turned into a wall display.

For the staff room we also did a Word Search, some quote cards and a Clickview bookmark.

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The day seemed to be successful with lots of students picking up books to read and weeks afterwards students were still reading their Blind Date books during Wider Reading.