• Alumni/Author Visit for your Library

    Jonathan Cain (Keyboardist of Journey) & Ned Colletti (Former GM of the LA Dodgers), Authors and Alums joined us at school—amazing event!

  • Illinois Award Winning Titles

    Celebrate the best books in the state voted on by teens for teens. Use student-generated art to market and advocate.

  • One Book One School

    Foster a reading culture and create partnerships with your local libraries, community college and feeder schools.

  • Open House

    Showcase your library and your resources to your new teachers, a specific department or group.

  • Colleagues help create a reading culture!

    Encourage faculty and staff to share what they read with your students.

  • Author Visits: Market and Celebrate!

    Partner with students to create clever images and publicity to encourage your stakeholders to attend and celebrate your Library.

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Amazing Programming For Your School Library

  • Partner with your Family and Consumer Sciences Department

    Cupcake Wars! Have students decorate cupcakes themed around favorite books.

  • Lunch and Learn in your Library

    Do you have a makerspace? Have the students host their teachers and let them demonstrate what they know.

  • Use Twitter for Back Door Advocacy

    Use social media to advocate for your programming. Create a #hashtag just for your school library.

  • Evening Author Community Event

    Did you invite an author to your school for the day? Invite the author to join you in the evening.

  • Celebrate National Poetry Month in your Library!

    Use weeded books to celebrate and allow students to create Blackout Poetry!

  • Bell Ringers!

    Stop in a class the first 5 minutes or the last 5 minutes and promote your library. Do you celebrate Banned Books Week? Talk up a few banned books.

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  • Reading Chair Contest

    Create teams, a mix of faculty, students and staff, to bolster your reading culture.

  • Infographic

    Celebrate the work you do by creating an infographic to share with stakeholders to validate and advocate for your school library.

  • One Book One School Poster Campaign

    One Book, One School! Celebrate your One Book with a poster campaign. Have students, faculty and staff create posters and plaster them throughout your schools, highlighting favorite quotes and how those quotes relate.

  • Book Tasting!

    Invite classes in to taste a genre!

  • Book Club with the Local Librarians

    Partner with the local YA librarian to enrich the experience for your students.

  • Don't be Loco, Have Some Cocoa

    Kick off the second semester with circulation numbers unlike any other!

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