Should I still do book displays, even if my campus isn't open? The answer is YES! Now, more than ever, students need to connect with the school and know that you are still there for them. Remember, your incoming students have never seen your library!
Question: How can I promote my new books virtually?
Answer: However you are connecting with your students:
- Start an Instagram account and start posting pictures of your library
- Post pictures of your displays on Twitter
- Ask your principal if you can include information about the library in the digital Newsletter
- Post pictures to your library website
- Do a Video Library Orientation
- Record yourself reading the first chapters of books for "First Chapter Fridays"
- Record yourself reading picture books that students can listen to Asynchronously
- Make a recording of how students can reserve and pick up books remotely
- Record Book Reviews on Flipgrid
- Make an "Unboxing" video of your new book shipment
- Ask content area teachers if you can visit their zoom to talk about books related to their lesson
- Work on your display ideas now so that they are ready for when you do go back, even if it's next year! Take pictures so you can promote them on Social Media
- Display books in your windows if they are facing a public area
What if I am teaching from home or my district doesn't allow curbside check out?
- Promote any e-books that are available in your collection
- Film instructional videos on how to access them
- Did you know that ProQuest has full e-books? (Hint - Search for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books in the Proquest Schools and Educators Complete portal!)
- Teaching Books has 1,353 full-text books and poems in their collection
- Film videos of how to get a public library card, and how to access their books
Thes ideas from School Librarian's Workshop Facebook Group (request to join the private group) were generated when we were still in-person teaching, but you could use these ideas to get ready for the return to school or take pictures to give your students the in-person experience virtually:
Here are more ideas from the School Librarian’s Workshop for new books:
- Check out these new books printable (pictured above)
- Bulletin Board of teachers holding their favorite book
- School Announcements
- Toilet Papers from The Book Wrangler
- New books sign over water fountains
- Book Tasting
- Musical Books
- Starbooks Cafe free logo on TPT
- Speed Dating
- Special Shelf or cart (as pictured above)
- Newsletter
- e-mail to staff
- Breakfast with new books - a Zoom before school just to talk about books
- Booktalks
- NEW spine labels. Print them on paper so they don't stick, then use a label protector to hold them on. They can be reused this way.
- NEW Book Post it Note (How to Print on Post its)
- New Arrival sign made with https://www.textgiraffe.com/
- New/Trending Now display
- New book Wall display of printed covers
- New Year New Books google doc sign
- Make a google doc of the covers and post it into Google Classroom or your LMS such as CANVAS
- Book Talk them to classes pre-recorded or in teacher's classrooms
- Show Book Trailers
- Scholastic Book Blurbs
- New Book Sign Freebie from Teachers Pay Teachers by teacher Golz (above)
- Bookmark inside that sticks out top (graphic above)
- Use the same display for advertising the book fair, and replace the dates with "New Books"
- Put a sign in the window when you have new books.
- More Window Signs
- Look What's new in the library with googly eyes From Librarian ICU
- New Books Display
- New Books on the table with Post-its so students can reserve them when processed.
- Put them all on display at one time for a week of ‘previews’, where students can look at them but not check them out until all the students have had a fair and equal chance to see all of them. After that week students can begin checking them out, one new book per person (they can check out two of our ‘original’ books at that time too).
- Keep all the new books for the quarter (or year) on a different shelf.
- The student who placed a book on the wish list is first to read it.
- Hold a book raffle. The kids love it! They can use their raffle tickets for the same book or split them. Once raffled, students can put the book on hold to be the next to check it out.
- Unboxing video on YouTube
- Share new titles on library Instagram
- Display them on a shelf and students can choose them from there. We also limit it to one new book.
- First To Read contest. Pick a few of the very popular titles and students sign up through a Google form for the one they want to read first. Then pull names, make a label for inside the book that tells which student read it first, and make the announcement on the morning broadcast.
- They get a temporary “new” spine sticker and live in our New Book section for a few months. Checkout is first come, first serve. I also usually set aside a few to read to groups each week.
- I just display them when they are processed and they are added to a running slide show of “Newest Titles” that is continuously projected on a big screen TV by genre.
- Allow students to place holds on popular new books. This makes the students pay attention when I do my "how to use the catalog" lesson. They can only place 2 holds at a time. The others I put on display 16 at a time. (That's how many stands I have from Demco.)
- Set them all out, take pictures to make a slideshow, and start letting kids get them day 1. Everyone gets to see the slideshow throughout the week, and when students return the new ones the next week, I ask them to display them on our display shelves. For several weeks, all my display areas turn into new book displays. I also send the slideshow out to teachers so they can see the new books we have as well.
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