Matariki - Maori New Year

By Jacqueline Gardner-Cook & Courtney Newman

Two of our students created this display for Matariki, we love Jacqueline's painting!
I attached some stars onto a boring black post and now we are ready to celebrate Maori New Year!

If you don't know much about Matariki you can find some details here:

Ko te whānau o Matariki: Matariki Education Resource - Te Papa: The Museum of New Zealand

Top 10

By Elaine Pearson 

Hang out with the top reads!

Another way to show the Top 10 issues from your library! It's a bit difficult to see from this picture but the pegs have numbers on them. The book covers have been photocopied onto card.

Back to the Books

By Stephanie Trzeciakiewicz

Welcome to a new school year all those in the Northern Hemisphere - hope it's a good one! 

Thanks to Stephanie for sharing her 'Back to School' display. It's great that she was able to recycle book covers used in previous displays. Here are her comments:

'Here is my Back to School display. I cut out giant letters that read Back to the Books and centered them on our HUGE bulletin board outside the library. I then surrounded the letters with different sized book covers. It has gotten a lot of attention when people stop to see which books they have read and which books they would like to read. Believe it or not, about 80 percent of the book covers were ones I had saved from past displays, and only had to print out some of our newer titles. Took a lot of staples, though!'

Back To School Bulletin Board

By Denise Borck, 

Denise Media Specialist at William James Middle School sent in this fabulous Back to School Display. Check out the details on her website: Life in the Library 

Meet the library staff

By Mary Leyva

Thanks to Mary from Colorado Academy for sharing this great way to introduce library staff to new students. Here are her comments:

'We created a 'Meet The Library Staff' display for the beginning of school. We have a new librarian and incoming 6th graders at our middle and upper school library. It is a fun way for students and faculty to meet us. We included basic information like our names and work hours, but also fun stuff like our favorite books, interests, areas of expertise and what we would be doing if we weren't working in a library. Essential to this display are our pictures, so folks can but a name to a face. It's a little busy with the 'vintage glasses' wallpaper (from Papersource) in the background, but kids have enjoyed it!'

Resolve to Read More!

By Debra Claus-Walker

Thanks to Debra (Library Assistant in Cochise County Library District AK) for sharing your New Year display.

Great to hear from you!

Library Staff

By Josephine Crimp

Josephine is the librarian at Shrewsbury International School in Thailand. Welcome to the Blog Josephine and thanks for sharing your displays!

This display is one that Josephine does each year to introduce library staff to new students. The display includes the library monitors which makes them feel special - which of course they are!!

Welcome to School!

By Sue Kay

A big welcome back to Sue who has generously shared many of her creative displays in the past.

Sue works at Tincurrin Primary School.

Here are her comments:

'This is a very quick display I did for the start of the year. I used a piece of black card and wrote on it with chalk to resemble the old blackboard. I added an old chair, an apple and a globe then added some new stationery I found in the cupboards'.

The Year of the Dragon

By Kelly Butcher
Kelly has made this stunning display and generously let me share it on this Blog.
Here are the details:
'To celebrate The Year of The Dragon, I created a display of Dragon books. To make the dragon, I blew up this image of a Chinese Dragon, colored it and cut it out. Then, I accordion folded 4 sheets of construction paper and taped them together. I wrapped the dragon around my go to wooden ladder and added a Happy New Year sign. I have a feeling this display will be empty soon!'
Thanks Kelly!