ANZAC Day 2015

By Gabrielle Karsai

Thanks to Gabrielle, from Parramatta NSW, for sharing her 2015 ANZAC display. It has a personal touch this year with an emphasis on how war has affected families within the school community. She particularly focused on the written word and the importance of letters, both for the person far from their loved ones and for those waiting at home. 

I'm sure it was extremely interesting and informative for all involved.

National Poetry Month

By Rose Hopkins-LaRocco

Thanks to Rose for this fabulous interactive display for National Poetry Month. 

I love the creative use of a bookshelf space for the display.

Details of National Poetry Month 2015 can be found here: National Poetry Month (America)

ANZAC Day

By Sally

I just love this clever display by Sally from Christchurch, New Zealand. 

It was a joint effort with students and members of the public - a great way to bring the joint (school & public) community together. The poppies are all knitted, crocheted, or sewn. 

I bet it has a huge impact on everyone who sees it, it's really impressive! 

Well done Sally and thanks for sharing it.

Reading helps the mind Bloom!

By Denise Borck

A gorgeous Spring display that just makes you want to pick up a book! Thanks for sharing Denise! 

Poetry Month

By Michelle Reid

Thanks to Michelle, Library Assistant at Tahoma Junior High School for sharing this great idea and display encouraging student participation. Here are her comments:

'This April we did a month-long promotion for National Poetry Month at our junior high library. I took my inspiration from this year’s national poster (featuring an excerpt from Leaves of Grass) and from poetry.org’s Poem in Your Pocket Day. We decided to give out “poems for your pocket” every school day in April. Teachers, staff, and students were asked to contribute favorite or original poems; then encouraged to stop by the library to pick up a new poem to read & share each day. We featured a different poem each day, and noted who had submitted it. Size-wise, I tried to fit 3 copies per page, so I could cut the poems into narrow strips. The most popular by far were the original poems written by students. We printed those on colored paper so they were easily spotted. A copy of each day’s poem was also posted in our window gallery – by the end of the month, we had a great collection that ranged from silly to serious, short to long, penned by well-known to obscure poets. It was fun to see and share what others considered their favorite poems, and to share original student works. This promotion was very successful, and we’ve even had some students say they miss the daily poems now that it’s ended. 

Poetry Month (America)

By Inga Cain

Thanks to Inga for  sharing this display for Poetry Month - a great idea to inspire and encourage her students to try their hand at writing poetry. Here are her comments:
'All of my students will be writing poetry this month. Their biggest question is always, “What do I write about?” I tell them, “Anything!” So I created this display with odds and ends to get them thinking and included a poem I wrote'.

National Poetry Month 

ANZAC Day

By Jo England

This dramatic display has been shared by Jo from Riverview School in Kerikeri (NZ).

Jo has included questions in her display like 'How do you feel about war?' 'Why do we wear a red poppy?' 'Who went to war?' To get the children to go home and ask questions and to think how it makes them feel.

Great idea Jo, thanks for sharing. Elaine

Shakespeare's Birthday - April 23

By Susan Duncan

Susan is the Library Assistant at Lester B. Pearson High School, Calgary, Alberta Canada. 

She has kindly shared this impressive display for Shakespeare's Birthday.

Here are her comments:

'I wanted the display to look like an old book so I used a background of Shakespeare quotes on distressed paper. The border is cardboard, also distressed with water and spray paint. Finding a portrait of Shakespeare in poster size proved difficult, so I made my own. Just in case you think I am artistically inclined, I have to admit that I did both the background and portrait by projecting the design from a Word document onto paper and tracing it with markers. I placed the tri-fold on top of a bookcase filled with a variety of Shakespeare books, movies, and novels. It was a lot of work, but worth the time effort I put in.'

Thanks very much Susan - it's a wonderful display and well worth the effort as you can bring it out every year - that's if you can stop the English Department from stealing it first!

National Poetry Month

By Heather Aston
Heather, librarian at Coppell Middle School East in Texas has kindly shared this eye-catching display to promote National Poetry Month.

Anzac Day

By Grace

Grace has just completed three weeks of work experience in a school and was given the task of creating some displays. Good job Grace! And thanks for sharing.

William Shakespeare

By Elaine Pearson

We are celebrating Shakespeare's birthday this week with  'Shakespeare Day'.
Seniors are invited to dress up as their favourite Shakespearean character and the Drama department are involved with some acting.
The border of the display features scenes from Elizabethan England. The Coat of Arms and portrait are copied from the book 'Shakespeare' by Anthony Burgess.

The 'No Fear Shakespeare' books have been an excellent way to encourage students to read Shakespeare and they have been surprisingly popular.

April is School Library Month (America)

By Denise Borck
Denise Borck (Media Specialist at William James Middle School, Statesboro GA) found the Library Displays Blog via Pinterest.
I love Pinterest which is basically an online pinboard and a great way to save images you come across while surfing the net, take a look at it here: Pinterest.com

Denise has shared this eye-catching display for School Library Month which is celebrated in April in America. For more details see:
ALA National Library Week

It sounds like William James Middle School had a good month! Here are Denise's comments:
'In celebration of National Library Month, the media center had a few activities going on to encourage students to visit. We had a contest in which students could win a free book. Faculty members were polled to find out their favorite children’s book. Students had to match the books to the correct faculty member'.

ANZAC Day

By Eileen Barnett
Another bright display for Anzac Day from Eileen Barnett (Menzies College). I like the poppies and it is nice to know that the pupils took part in making them. Thanks Eileen.

ANZAC Day

By Gaby Karsai
Gaby has also sent in this photo of the ANZAC display she did last year. She emailed school staff and asked them to contribute any personal memorabilia pertaining to family who were involved in any of the wars and was overwhelmed by the response as you can see from the display. They even had a uniform from WW1.
This approach to the display makes it particularly pertinent and interesting to the school commumnity. Thanks for sharing your ideas Gaby.

Gaby Karsai is the Library Assistant at Our Lady of Mercy College Parramatta.

National Library Week 2008

By Elaine Pearson
This is my display to link in with National Library Week's theme - What's Your Story? Once again, it is simple and cheap to produce!!














Aren't there some amazing biographies around?
'A Boy Called It' has been in our top five issues for the past four years running. Students of all levels and abilities devour it. They always recommend it to their friends and always ask for more like it. I have bought a few others - I select carefully, only purchasing those which end with hope. This one was recommended by a student and has been on issue ever since I bought it:



We have two competitions running this week, one where the students have to match photographs of our prefects to pictures of their favourite books, this has been popular with all the students who have been suprised and inspired by some of the senior readers choices.
The second competition was a little harder and involved cryptic clues to the identity of a character from a book. It has been a good challenge for the students who read widely.