I have been busy with library displays but kept forgetting to get the photos home to post. I’ve done three displays since I last posted. Hallowe’en is full of photos of the pupils so I can’t post them but we did a haunted house mystery where the pupils had different characters and library users were challenged to solve the mystery. All very Scooby Doo 
Next I had my Remembrance Day display. I try and change it every year and last year had a WW1 emphasis so I decided to go with the current war in Afghanistan as this years. I typed up a list of the UK military personnel who have died since we started the conflict including job and age. Simple but very effective.
Then we had my LGBT display. Now this was a result of a staff challenge. At the last in-service day we were challenged to do things that would make LGBT lifestyle accepted (i.e. the same way skin colour and religion have been accepted). I opted for authors who have written great books but happen to fall into one of those categories for the display. I think the funniest thing about this one was that the depute head sent me an email saying we’d have to discuss this as we don’t want to ‘promote’. Needless to say we never had the talk but I love the idea I have that power – now if I could only make them read!
NB: four pupils have come out to me as a result so the aim of making it an accepted thing in the library worked – none of them took a book though!
The slogan was an adaptation of one I’d seen on the Curmudgeoy Librarian Superstore which had it going ‘into the stacks’ but there was no way my pupils would have understood that.
