Ideas for celebrating ISLD

Staff/student book quiz
Cheese and wine party for teachers to show off new resources
Teacher storytelling / bookreading / favourite book slot at lunchtime
Staff/student poetry slam
Library screensavers on all school pcs
Library survey
Launch library weblog/website
Arrange an exhibition of the latest titles - or the most bizarre books/titles, oldest, biggest, most issued etc
Librarian job swap with another (senior) member of staff for the day
Act out extracts of favourite books in assembly
Interview with the Headteacher by students about the role and importance of the school library for the school newspaper or website
Large footprints all over school leading to library
Poster campaign - toilet doors etc with curiosity-piqueing questions/bookquotes/facts - answers in the library
Get Caught Reading - Library staff or students photo staff and students caught reading - give small prizes
Whole school assembly introduced by Head and librarian
Favourite book/internet site survey among staff - results displayed in school foyer
Search for staff quotes about what the library means to them - and display results in library
Drop Everything And Read

Suggest 10 'must-read' UK books in different age categories students in other countries should read
5 minutes of book reading in every lesson - related to subject or teacher recommendation read aloud
Research into the top-selling fiction books in other countries. Display the results by continent
Research reading, literacy and bookselling statistics for other countries and continents. Display the results graphically (Maths)
Design posters in different mediums to promote the library (Art)
Create an advertising campaign to revamp the image of school libraries (Business Studies/English)
Debate - book or pc (English) - involve staff

Bookswap
Booksale
Sponsored internet surf
Sponsored read
Fundraising for BOOK AID international or twinned school abroad
Roald Dahl Revolting Recipe cocktail party
Book banquet
Library jokes and limericks board/competition
Chocolate for everyone doing something productive in the library
Launch library loyalty card scheme
Author visit/live literature event
e-mail a school library in another country giving details of your favourite book and set up ongoing links/online reading or review groups
Browse internet and explore school libraries in other countries for ideas of how to improve your own
Library research treasure hunt
Book quiz
Invite an SLS librarian to come and talk to students about reading
Visit to bookshop with pupils/student librarians
Recognize and reward achievement of your student librarians, Library Committee, or top library users with certificates, book tokens, cakes and letters home
Organise a visit to another school library or public or university library for student librarians to see how other libraries and librarians work

Writing competition (autobiography, biography of favourite author, poem, short story about a library, book reviews)
Draw characters in favourite stories/alternative book covers
Design a dream school library
Design a school library for 2020
Match staff photo with their favourite book/bedtime story
Design library mouse pads
Design and print library T-shirt/badges for student librarians
Create a mascot for the school library
Photo competition - a day in the life of the library
Photo competition - people caught reading unusual things in unusual places around school or in the wider community, or posing with something specially chosen for them

Invite in parents for open day
Social event for local librarians - visit to neighbouring library or bookshop
Have students interview parents and school staff to find out what school libraries were like when they were at school or to show how your library has changed. Share stories about changes in the school libraries over the years and search the archives for material. Display quotes from the interviews and photos

Have students report on all events in the school newspaper, on the school library website and in a report to Governors

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