Last Day of School (with students); just our admin day tomorrow, then…summer holidays!
The last families signed up for #BooksOut4Summer checked out today to help #SetTheBooksFree!
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YES! The first 11 kids signed up to borrow #BooksOut4Summer came in this morning…chose 20ish books each.
More families will come by after school and before/after school tomorrow.
I love to #SetTheBooksFree rather than leave them in the library shelves all summer.
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These are screenshots of the #BooksOutForSummer info/promo sheet/email and the family sign-up sheet… I’m including a Google doc link in the thread that can be put through a reader so that it is accessible.
These are screenshots of the #BooksOutForSummer info/promo sheet/email and the family sign-up sheet… I’m including a Google doc link in the thread that can be put through a reader so that it is accessible.
These are screenshots of the #BooksOutForSummer info/promo sheet/email and the family sign-up sheet… I’m including a Google doc link in the thread that can be put through a reader so that it is accessible.
These are screenshots of the #BooksOutForSummer info/promo sheet/email and the family sign-up sheet… I’m including a Google doc link in the thread that can be put through a reader so that it is accessible.
Starting to receive a bunch of forms back from the #BooksOut4Summer / #SetTheBooksFree promo I started last week.
Yes!
The books won’t be sad, lonely, dusty on the shelves of the library this summer; they’ll go home with kid readers!
(See also, prev posts with those hashtags for more info + 🧵)
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The edge of my check in check out station my circulation desk that shows the scanner visible as well as the corner of my keyboard, plus my mouse and some stacks of books that have just been checked in… see also, next pic…
A picture of the library dropbox a step away from the corner of the circulation desk in last picture… the box is half full, and there are stacks and stacks of books on the counter beside it and on the floor below it… See also, next pic…
The other far end of my circulation desk covered in many sorted stacks of shorter novels series, plus tons more books (longer novels) piled on my workbench behind it… see also, next pic…
Around the corner from all the other piles of books in the last photos is my book truck all piled up with 1 million returns (Graphic Novels, nonfic)…plus some stacks on a random table slightly visible…where I’m about to be sorting some more nonfic returns…WHEW! Chaos! But, getting organized.
#LibraryLife, year-end edition…
Inventory bookdropping:
Joy for all the books that actually came back on this deadline day; sadness for all the books still unaccounted for; sadness for all the shelving now to do; joy for the upcoming #BooksOut4Summer / #SetTheBooksFree opportunity.
Mixed bag!
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Here are some other past #BooksOut4Summer stats, which also show that, if you #SetTheBooksFree from abandonment on dusty shelves, they will be returned at the end of the holidays.
Summer losses aren’t an issue.
(More info in ALT)
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My very cluttered pic collage poster that sums up my books out for summer campaign from last year. It has information such as 100% of summer loan books were returned by day two of the first week back to school in September. It mentions that I got a very late start on promotions last June and so only had 16 families participate, which represented a total of 24 kids books. But, they signed out a total of 320 books. poster mentions that the popularity of genre and form for checkouts was in this order: graphic novels, non-fiction, picture books, early/shorter chapter books, longer novels.
Starting to hype #BooksOut4Summer this week.
It’s definitely time to #SetTheBooksFree again for the summer holidays.
(See my hashtags above for tons more info on letting kids take school library books home for the summer.)
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#SetTheBooksFree or #BooksOut4Summer
data doesn’t lie.
+ Books won’t be lost, will get returned—let kids have them!
@teacherkjohnson.bsky.social
Summary:
researcharchive.canadianschoollibraries.ca/2025/05/06/s...
Whole research paper:
researcharchive.canadianschoollibraries.ca/wp-content/u...
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Celebrating 6 Years of #SetTheBooksFree
journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/reading-joy-...
Last days of school:
#SetTheBooksFree
Let kids take them home, read them, love them for two months.
#BooksOut4Summer
#TLsky 📚 #Skybrarians
More info/ideas threaded below⬇️
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“Reading Joy Should Not End in June! Set Your Books Free for the Summer”
journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/reading-joy-...
Last days of school:
#SetTheBooksFree
#BooksOut4Summer
#TLsky 📚 #Skybrarians
More info/ideas threaded below⬇️
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@teacherkjohnson.bsky.social and I are so into this idea that we issue it as a decree, a dare, a challenge, a fun-fest bandwagon to jump on…
#SetTheBooksFree
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Don’t let your library’s collection languish on the shelves for summer holidays! Bullet those books with students! Loan them out!
#SetTheBooksFree
#BooksOutForSummer
www.instagram.com/share/_nquqs...
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Speaking of Decrees…
So Decrees This Librarian:
May Day is the day for all T-Ls to begin planning to institute a #BooksOut4Summer event for the summer holidays. No more books collecting dust for months!
#SetTheBooksFree!
Here’s how/why:
bsky.app/profile/exli...
And,
bsky.app/profile/exli...
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So cool!
You might be interested in my and @teacherkjohnson.bsky.social hyping of summer loans for school library kids under #SetTheBooksFree or #BooksOut4Summer.
No more collecting dust on the shelves during summer holidays.
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Thinking ahead already to this conference, I’m also reminded of presenting a #BooksOut4Summer workshop last conf w/ @teacherkjohnson.bsky.social … and hoping #TLsky folks plan now to #SetTheBooksFree this summer.
Info on how/why here:
bsky.app/profile/exli...
(might propose a diff pro-d this time)
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You mentioned book stacks for summer vacation…I’m super passionate about school libraries doing summer loans…I could go on and on about it…access barriers down, incr use of resources…
@teacherkjohnson.bsky.social and I have even done workshops to spread the #BooksOut4Summer #SetTheBooksFree idea
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Yes! Perspective!
I have had a person or two ask…
(prob during our pro-d workshops on #SetTheBooksFree w/ @teacherkjohnson.bsky.social)
Q:
What If, this year, a whole pile do go missing?
Me:
“I don’t care—well, I care; I’d be sad, for sure; but, it couldn’t possibly outweigh allll the positives.”
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Exciting to see @teacherkjohnson.bsky.social taking the summer loans (of school library books) idea to a bigger audience…
#SetTheBooksFree
#BooksOut4Summer
Read about in this 🧵
and try it out yourself.
bsky.app/profile/teac...
#TLsky #SchoolLibrary #TeacherLibrarian
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Recess Break PSA:
Don’t let books sit gathering dust over the long summer break ever again. Plan now for #SetTheBooksFree / #BooksOut4Summer
#TeacherLibrarians #SchoolLibrary
#TLsky
All the info + article⬇️
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See also, 🧵
of more info ⬆️⬇️
about #BooksOut4Summer or #SetTheBooksFree,
letting kids checkout library books for the long summer holiday.
I want to know more about T-Ls who do this, how they run it, etc—hoping for more uptake ASAP from more school libraries.
bsky.app/profile/exli...
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Ready for the BC Teacher-Librarians’ Association conference here at Vic High in beautiful Victoria.
Excited to be presenting a workshop this afternoon on #SetTheBooksFree #BooksOut4Summer to encourage T-Ls to let kids take library books home for summer holidays.
#bctla #PSAday
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Tons more info and data under my @ExLibrisMrHunt handle on Twitter via #BooksOut4Summer and #SetTheBooksFree hashtags.
Is this done in schools in the U.S. at all?
Done internationally?
If you’re a CDN school doing this (maybe via Cdn School Lib Journal push?), let me know.
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I do this thing I call #BooksOut4Summer or #SetTheBooksFree, in which families can sign up to allow their kids to each take 20 of our school library books home for the summer (and there might be a Library POP UP for 2 hrs in late July to exchange for more).
Ideally…
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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#SetTheBooksFree
#EnoughIsEnough
www.alaskasnewssource.com/app/2023/11/...
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