Our Student Engagement branch of our Student Librarian team wanted to do an Easter scavenger hunt in the library. After much discussion and consultation between their team and myself, we modified their original idea (hide pictures of Easter eggs in books and if students find them, they win Easter eggs) to one that would be slightly less disastrous for the state of our shelves.

20 books have been stolen from the library's collection and tagged with an alert in Oliver. On Monday, there will be 20 different QR codes hidden around the library. When students find these, they have to scan them and solve the riddle to identify one of the 20 tagged books. If they are the first to borrow it, they win a hollow Easter egg! Some of the clues are difficult riddles (e.g. "If reds were under the bed, what would they do? They'd take all property away from you!" for What Would Marx Do?), while most are designed to give students the opportunity to practice searching using Oliver Library (e.g. if you misbehave in class, you get a ______ for Detention by Tristan Bancks).

The real aim of this is to encourage students' independence through the use of our OPACs while searching for a specific book, but I know they're going to be so caught up searching for these books that they won't even realise they're learning.

I've been promoting it in assembly and daily announcements, and have had SO many students ask about it, ready to hunt for the codes. I've been pretty evasive about it - I read Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson, so this is the notice being read out on Monday morning, and I can't wait for my fellow TD fans at my school to recognise it.