Time to GEAR UP up for our new Catalog!

By Donna Powers

No better way to introduce a new computer system! 

Thanks for this spectacular display Donna, it will certainly gain the attention of your patrons.

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By Denise Borck

Thanks again to Denise for sharing another stunning display.

Her comments below explain the display. 

They are taken from her Blog, which is well worth a visit: LIFE IN THE LIBRARY

'With school back in full swing, it was time to change our back to school bulletin board with something more current. With Instagram favored by teens over Facebook and Twitter as their most important social networking tool, it was the perfect choice for our theme. Visiting classrooms around the school allowed me to take pictures of students and faculty going about the daily life of school here at WJMS. I created wjmsknights as our faux Instagram account and added applicable hashtags to go with the images. Inserting each image into an Instagram template found online, made them look much more authentic. I also included some infographics found online which show how powerful Instagram can be as a tool for social networking. Since the kids have seen me around the building taking pictures, they have been drawn to the new board to see which images I posted. I plan to keep this board up through the spring while changing out the pictures of WJMS events throughout the year'.

Take a Bite out of a Good Book

By Ellen Dutton
Ellen Dutton from Evelyn Grace Academy in London has put reading displays in different classrooms. She has made the theme relevant to the subject and it works really well! Ellen says that they are trying to create a strong reading culture in their school and also show that students who love reading generally do better in all different subjects.

I think it's a really good idea and would like to do a similar thing myself. It is a great opportunity to use display to promote the library, and reading, to subjects that rarely use the library resources. I will photocopy the covers of some of our best computer books to go with this one.

Thanks for sharing Ellen.