Events

You’re connected to ideas for activities

Here are some ideas and tips on getting the best out of Library Week:

• Contact your local newspaper and keep them updated with your library’s activities
• Download and print the Get Connected arrows and stick them to floors, walls and windows to highlight displays, activities and sections of your library
• Use the shelf wobblers (adhesive arrows to attach to bookshelves) to highlight your teams’ reading and music hit picks
• Give regular visitors a wobbler to note their own favorite books
• Create book displays with titles including days of the week – such as Monday in the title on Monday
• Involve local shops and put a display of cookery books in the local cafe, for example - with a Library Week poster of course
• Put up NZ’s Biggest Storytime posters in the local hall, civic centre, and schools
• Invite local councillors and celebrities to read at Storytime
• Have members vote for their favorite book from a list suggested by your team
• Create a library book club
• Offer a library journal for members to recommend their favorite book
• Give a free library Journal to members who bring in a new member
• Put on a special children’s Biggest Storytime, with them reading
• Use arrows to make a maze or treasure hunt around your library
• Host a library sleepover
• Host a local quiz night - after all, libraries are the hub of information
• Create your own library's story - kick it off with the first paragraph about the library and get regular members and children to add a paragraph to it over the week. Then organise a special reading of it at the end of the week
• For the book reading, get the kids to bring their funniest or favourite item found at the back of the chair
• Host a dress-up day for the kids - so they can dress as their favourite character from a story
• Hold a Mock Criminal Investigation in Your Library with clues and a code that students have to solve. Then re enact the crime and award prizes
• Hold a competition to guess the weight of a huge stack of library books
• A competition to guess which book a passage was read from
• Hold a literature quiz with different rounds on a variety of topics eg. Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales, Harry Potter etc.  Book prizes/vouchers to be awarded to the winning team
• HAVE FUN: MORE IDEAS ON THE WAY! IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE IDEAS PLEASE SEND THEM TO megan@lianza.org.nz

Remember to go to www.libraryweek.org.nz for more information about Library Week 2006