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June

Week 34

Day 165: Change the Bulletin Board Displays

Day 166: Promote the summer reading list of your school. If there isn't one, then make your own "must read this summer" list.

Day 167: Make sure you get a yearbook from the yearbook staff. Maintain an archive of all yearbooks. This may be the only record of school history.

Day 168: Subscribe to local papers. Post any news articles about the school on a bulletin board, or keep a scrapbook on the counter.

Day 169: Develop a yearbook policy regarding who can view yearbooks and make copies. This is especially important if someone famous attended your school.  Here's a yearbook policy I developed for Western High School, where Tiger Woods went to school.  

Day 170: Toot your own horn. Pass it on...Share everything you do with the library community. Your ideas will help other librarians improve their program.

Week 35

Day 171: Professional Networking with listservs, they usually can answer every patron's "stumper." CALIBK12, YALSABK, LM_NET.

Day 172: If you will be returning to your position next year, be sure to thank all your library supporters. Use the AASL's School Library Program Health Toolkit to build a long term advocacy plan.

Day 173: Have a party for your TA's, Friends of the Library, Book Club, Teen Advisory Board or Library Club.

Day 174: Count up your library use from the year's sign in sheets. Report to the principal how highly used your facility is.  See infographic below.  

Day 175: Write a library plan for your library and make sure to share it with key administrators. 

Week 36

Day 176: Attend the year end awards banquet and give a reading award for your top reader.

Day 177: Give a summary of the year's library programs to your PTSA president so they know how you have contributed to academic achievement.

Day 178: Help your teachers collect textbooks with these helpful hints. Put out an all call informing parents that all textbooks are due prior to finals.

Day 179: Allow summer check outs for returning students and teachers. Start a "Don't get dumber in the summer" book club using "book bundles" or "summer series."

Day 180: Do professional reading over the summer. A good place to start is Simply Indispensable by Janice Gilmore-See. Libraries Unlimited. 2010.

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