Spring Break

Chinese New Year Dragon!

Check out this Chinese New Year Dragon floating above the books at the Forsyth Road Elementary Library! Teacher-librarian, Robin, had students create the links in table groups using materials purchased at Urban Source: Alternative Art Materials located on Main Street in Vancouver.

Creating the dragon was a multi-age collaborative art activity.

Easy paper link chain created the body of the dragon. Interesting art materials were used to decorate each section.

Deselection in your LLC

Weeding, or deselecting materials in your library learning commons is a job that sometimes gets pushed to the back burner. With the myriad of jobs we do as teacher-librarians, it tends to be a job that can wait. That's why some TLs use the CREW method of keeping their collection current.
CREW stands for Continuous Review, Evaluation and Weeding. While CREW was designed for public libraries, it can be adapted by school libraries. In Surrey, we've extended the 10 year old age limit to 15 years and use the MUSTIE criteria. MUSTIE refers to Misleading, Ugly, Superceded, Trivial, Irrelevant, Elsewhere. 
I recently visited Latimer Road Elementary and teacher-librarian, Angela. We tackled the fiction collection and created space on each shelf for displaying books. It gave the wall a fresh look and provided a new space to promote books.

Discards included damaged and old books.

Shelves look much more open and appealing!