Catch Your Faculty in Your Library’s Web: A How to Entice Faculty

Library Promotions Rachel Shankles

Lakeside High SchoolHot Springs, AR

Get some new piece of equipment in there so they will all walk thru once in a while

You could add a new poster maker or Cricut or Test grading machine like a Scantron or an art waxer.

Make a bulletin board where you take all their photos before school starts and find out how many years they have taught. Make a tree of knowledge with these and put their combined number of years experience. They will all want to see it. Our principal said keep it and put it back out when the monitoring team comes later

Draw them into the library:

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Cricut expression – more versatile than Ellison Cutter; cuts vinyl quotes for walls

Cricut is the new Ellison CutterMight cost $300 or less

Each month put a little candy in a bag and make a card and place in mailboxes of the teachers on staff having bdays that month:

Examples: 1)Time to Kiss another year goodbye; thanks for

your cooperation. Enjoy some kisses from the library.

2) Garfield- Your secret is safe with me; I won’t tell anyone it’s your birthday. . .snicker, snicker

3) Rx from LHS Library: Happy Birthday and put a pill bottle full of M and Ms in it

Get the Faculty Birthday List

Brown: to temporarily calm your craving for chocolate Red- at the first sign of meeting overload Orange- to minimize “stress” from computer

breakdown Green- to calm your frustrations with whining

students Yellow- if you feel a headache coming on after

jamming the copier Blue- to reduce fatigue from trying to find time to get

it all doneDirections: Take as needed. If all symptoms appear at

the same time, eat the whole bottle.

RX on label of bottle: Take one Bottles can be donated by or bought from any pharmacy

Bulletin Board ideas- Match the teacher’s feet to his/her photo OR Match the pet to the teacher (they had to bring us photos of their pets and they all wanted to do this)

Make READ posters for those that want to come in and talk to you about their favorite book and post them outside their door or the library door—then sell it to them. Big hit each year—use ppt slide or put the photo in word and write on it or use a program like Photoshop. We do this for National Library Week each year. Everyone doesn’t participate. We might even sell the poster to the teachers afterwards to display in their room

SCHOOL-WIDE THEMES- SELL SHIRTS TO STAFF

Do Projects and Ask Them to Volunteer to Participate

Biology- new framework in forensics Art – ask teacher to plan for AP art to do the

Feb or another month’s bulletin board for the library using some technique. We do February about every other year as they study the Harlem Reniassance and them do some posters or famous peoples profiles from that time on my bulletin board in oils or pen and ink or black and white paint.

Invite speakers connected to their frameworks and invite their classes to come and hear the speaker

History - Arkansas Historical Preservation Society has free speakers who will come on 6 subjects like Rohwer or Equal Education in ARK History

English – find a reasonably priced new ARK author to invite and give away door prizes of free books OR have a poetry contest that follows the poetry framework of each gradelevel so they will all enter their students’ works

Math – have a tesselation drawing contest or give the classes a survey to make charts and graphs with that you make into posters like about the ethnicity of the class

EAST Lab – Get them to help you come up with and pull off Teen Tech Week programs using Wiis, Texting Bingo, or a showcase of their software programs at lunch

More Collaborations

Luau theme and pretend those retiring have been kicked off the island like Survivor theme

Karaoke by department; dress the parts Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader? Or

Jeopardy Games Fun in the Sun- get pails from Dollar Store

and fill with potting sand and place

Help organize Faculty Parties for Holidays or End of the Year

http://www.point4teachers.com/5th%20Grader.htm

http://www.jeopardylabs.com/

Enables huge poster making like the old Apple IIe where we taped pages together;

you can do this for the game templates to hang on wall. Very good quality on a color printer/laser color printer best; you input the size you want and it blows up and prints from the jpeg/picture file

http://posterous.com

Maps from State of Arkansas are free; as many as you like

We made a poem to put with it about finding your way back to LHS in the fall and gave every faculty member who came to the end of year party one. You could put in mailboxes any time of year

Order from the State Highway Department as many as you need for free

End of Year Gift

http://www.arkansashighways.com/planning_research/mapping_graphics/tourist.aspx

Set a date, invite speaker on topic and invite classes into library to hear speaker—make a reasonable schedule like 4th period , lunch (anyone can come in) and 5th period

Select history or science or Authors for English

Arkansas Historical Preservation Society Free School Programs

http://www.arkansaspreservation.com

We will Preserve! Historic Sites of Arkansas Associated with the New Deal

The Queen of the Delta: Historic Sites of Helena and the Arkansas Delta

Take the Last Train to Clarksville: Arkansas's Historic Depots and Railroad History

Arkansas's Haunted Historic Sites (this program changes every school year)

Equal Education: Historic Sites and Schools in Arkansas Associated with the African American Education Experience.

Historic Architecture in Arkansas

History in Your Backyard  (This program can be tailored to a specific community)

History Happened in Arkansas?  Arkansas's National Historic Landmarks

Law and Order on the Western Frontier: Fort Smith National Historic Site

Mysteries of the Mound Builders: Parkin and Toltec Archeological Sites

Rohwer:  Japanese-American Internment in Arkansas

(501) 324-9880 or email educationoutreach@arkansasheritage.org

Suicide Prevention Bullying Cybersafety Internet safety Good Choices Underage Drinking Phone:(501) 682-2007 or 1-800-482-8982

Attorney General’s Office Free Speakers for Schools

Check my wiki for updates and workshops to do with your teachers

Catch them in your library’s webRachel ShanklesRachel_Shankles@Lakesidesd.orgshankles@cablelynx.comSchool- 501-262-1530

http://aaimlibrarywiki.wikispaces.com