Teach your kids the layout of the library by assigning them Rookie Cases. Assess with Library Checkpoints. Reward them with a Library License. Too fun!!
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Teaching Library is a handy site for teachers who are looking for some lesson plan ideas to go along with children's books. The library features picture books, books for early readers, and books for young adults.
library scavenger hunt
13 Things To Do at the Library Besides Borrowing Books Happy National Library Week. What do you do at your public library?
The Library of Parliament in Canada. via Book Riot
22 Books That Should Be on Your Reading List + How to Host an Awesome Summer Book Swap #sponsored *Love this book club idea, checking out some of these books from the library for summer reading.
The Library Ladder Chair remains one of the perennial favorites from The Workshop Wizard. This amazing metamorphic chair in 1/12th scale was created by The Ferd Sobol Editions to the delight of miniature collectors worldwide. Read the entire story of the inspiration behind it and more on how if was built: http://thesoboleditions.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-library-chair-being-built.html
Children's Books About the Library
The Library Hotel in NYC - the hotel is based on books and is located in a historic sliver building - too cool! #travel #books #nyc
Escape the library! You and your team will have 15 minutes to solve a series of riddles, decipher the clues, and find the key to escape! Do you have the brainpower and teamwork skills needed to win…
Top 10 Programs Teens Want @ the Library >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This list, voted on by teens, contains some cool ideas for library programs such as giant gameboards, pizza tasting, scavenger hunts, and mini-golf. Creating a list like this could be a fun thing to present to the Teen Advisory Board as a way to select programs as well.
25 mini-adventures in the library. I don't think all of them would work for us, but slips of paper with different activities for families to come in and chose one or two to do would be a great, relatively low-staff-time program for the library.
FIVE LESSONS TO TEACH LIBRARY AND RESEARCH SKILLS. April Library Week Educationweek.com
Studio Peregalli transformed a historic villa near Venice. The library features oak paneling and columned arches; the table is 17th-century Tuscan, and the embossed-leather chairs are Louis XVI | archdigest.com
So after (successfully) completing Escape the Room adventures with my friends in family in Milawukee and Philadelphia, I just knew this was a program that would work with teens in the Library. I sc…