1. Created a generic guide they could give their students that links resources for that subject

2. Create a guide personalized to whatever project they are doing that included video instruction they could add to their course

3. Bring their class in for research instruction on a particular topic.

The requests for instruction have skyrocketed since I did this!

Responses were limited until we switched publicity and sign-up links to postcards made with CANVA. Our registration tripled with the change in advertising medium.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gm9jNSwjSAGO7qOWuzHEd2cdUkl6e3Tk/view?usp=sharing

I also talk with Jim beforehand and see what stories he's going to tell, then I'll grab and display the folktale (if we have it), and the kids are so excited to see the similarities and differences.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-cogan-62623111_touring-nationally-at-schools-across-the-activity-7109297756027981824-xKbi/

https://noodle.to/discoverscience

For teachers—we are continuing a “What Are You Reading?” program. Teachers tell us what they’re currently reading via a Google form, and we put up a sign with an image of their current book cover outside their classrooms.

—Bekah Puddington, Sacred Heart Schools (prep school), Atherton

Most of the zines that I print out and fold/staple are small enough to fit in a pocket, and the vast majority are age-appropriate, very short tabletop roleplaying games. It's a great way to get readers engaged with the library as a space, increase their sense of ownership in the library, and to expand their tastes with bite-sized games and zines.

My personal favorite? A mini-zine TTRPG called "Tome," which you fold into a bookmark and then use to play a game WITH the book you're currently reading!

• Margot Berrill, Peninsula School

We celebrated with cross divisional celebration of reading aloud all day. Students read to younger students, administrators read to students and each other, students read aloud in "open mic" style at lunch, we had author visits in 6 classes. it was a reading party day.

So the second half of Book Club is now Information Science Elective, in which I am teaching these middle schoolers the ins and outs of how a library actually functions. A lot of that is circulation tasks, sure, but we go pretty deep: how to process new books, how to select new books, how to weed collections, how to organize and restructure libraries, how to update catalogs, etc. The students love it, and I get a whole little army of kiddos that are trained to do my bidding!

5th grade students were in groups of 5, selected their books (each group read different book), set page goals for each week and read together in February, culminated with a "cafe" with snacks, and acted out a book trailer for their book. Students got a "menu" each week with questions for reflection, each week we added a new page of the menu.

We will put out board games, puzzles, origami and other crafts for them to play with.

I only found this recently and now use it all the time.

We have used it with our seniors to assess information literacy knowledge and skills before they head to college