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Georgia Independent School Librarians

Fall Meeting

October 20, 2018

Alfred & Adele Davis Academy

Welcome!

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Agenda

10:15-10:30 Welcome!

Head of School/New Members

10:30-11:15 Housekeeping

Survey & Activity

Book Talks (Tara)

11:15-11:30 Table Topic Choice/Organization

11:30-12:30 Break /Lunch

12:30-1:30 Tech Tools Trending (Jessica)

Costume Contest Poll

Photo Raffle

1:30-2:00 School Tour

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Housekeeping

Introductions

Membership Renewal

Official News

Contest (next slide)

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Librarian-Themed

Costume Ideas

Place your idea in orange pumpkin - don’t forget your name!

Share ideas via poll at

end of the day today

Winner gets a prize

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Participant Raffle and Warm-Up

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GISL Survey

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Survey Results

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Brainstorm

Digital Resources

Programming Ideas

Fighting Fake News

Redesigning Library Space

Questions * Areas of Interest * Ideas and Opportunities

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Beyond

Book Talks

Conversations to Build a Reading Community

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Let’s

Talk

About Book Talks.

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Share Experiences

Any winning book talk approaches

or strategies at your school?

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Common Woes

(aka Tara’s thoughts and fifteen things

that have worked for me)

“I want students to be more involved!”

“I want to create a sense of reading community.”

“I want to make this fun.”

“Do students really read the books they check out?”

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You Can’t Judge a Book Its Cover (But You Can Try)

Lay all books out on table.
Students choose one book that looks the most and least interesting (sticky notes)
Give book talks.
End by having students move their stickies to which books SOUND the most interesting and which sound the least. Discuss changes.

Audience Participation

Selectively pass out noise-making items
Have these students make a noise following your talk to represent type of book (genre)
Students must make noise at the end of your sentence or relinquish responsibility.

Drawing Contest

Students are given sheets of paper and encouraged to draw an illustration of a book discussed
Once talks are done, students show drawings, have class guess which book the drawing is inspired from

Matchmaking with a Book

Students listen to book talks and determine which titles would be best coupled together
Students ‘couple’ books and then explain their decisions

Reverse Psychology Book Talks

Create book talks about awful aspects of the book
Sarcasm is heavily appreciated here
None of you guys will want to check out these …
See the books fly off the shelves

Increasing Student Involvement

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Hashtag Reading

Have a hashtag contest - student audience creates hashtag for each book presented
Display hashtags and books in the library

Books for a Friend

Student entrance form: students write down their name and the type of books they like to read, slips are shuffled and randomly passed onto another student
Students listen to Book Talks knowing that they will be recommending a book to a friend
Students return slips with recommendations to slip owner at end of class

Students Book Talk, Too

Have students bring a book they’d recommend, book talk along with you!
Variation: have students choose a book from the cart and research what it is about. Intersperse student explanations with your own reviews.

Creating Community

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Book Matchmaker

Ask teacher to help compile a list of each student’s favorite book.
Bring a ‘match’ for each book.
Hold book talk and have students guess who their match is.
If they guess correctly, they get to check out the book!

Drawing Contest

Students are given sheets of paper and asked to draw an illustration of a book discussed during the book talks, once talks are over, students can show drawings on ELMO or projector and have class guess which book the drawing is inspired from.

Two Truths and a Lie

Project book cover, do book talk, ask students to pick out one false fact in your talk.
Students have to listen closely to guess which fact is inaccurate.

Make it a Game

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OutTalk the Librarian

Provide book talks. Have a student tape each talk.
Have all students check out books.
Provide incentive for creating a better book talk than you.
Display book talks in the library or revisit class. Have students vote on who did it best!

Prove the Librarian Wrong

Did you know that librarians are know-it-alls?
Explain that the purpose of this book talk is for Ms. Vito to convince you to read a book that you normally wouldn’t - and you’d actually like it!
Students listen to book talks and choose the one they like the least.
If you read and like - Ms. Vito will do (xxx) - create list of crazy things the library /librarians could do

Book Auction

How much is a book really worth? Have students bid on books you have book-talked. Students get limited cash for books, and once they have heard about titles, they can bid on books. Give them enough money to purchase two books.

Book Talks and Trivia

Divide class into two teams. Have teams take notes as you book talk. Then, offer trivia at the end. Clues that lead back to a particular book. Award teams points for those who listened best.

Up the Competition

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Share Titles

(EL/ML/UL)

Report Back to Group.

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What I Stalk

Book Trailers QuotesInBooks,

Things I Learned in YA

Fantasy YA Recs

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Table Topic Lunch

Write down some topics you want to talk about re: librarianship

Place them on tables

Sit near topics at lunch

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Tech Tools Trending

Jessica, you’re on!