This trip was so fun! Jill Seiler, the District Media Director/Tech Coach in the Little Falls Community School District showed me around the Lindbergh Elementary School. Admire the photos below, and see what you can adapt to your own library!

The signs are helpful, and I admit I got kind of excited when I saw that I was so close to the books and other cool stuff!

 

 

This display was not in the library, but it is always cool to see schools (and other organizations) that celebrate their history!

 

 

This display was immediately eye-catching! I love the round book shelves, fitting in just perfectly under the stairs. Meetings are held here, and it serves as the heart of the school.

 

I do suffer from a pretty advanced case of what I call “librarian disease” – it’s always exciting to see book shelves with all these nice book, and it’s really difficult to stop myself from just grabbing all the books and looking at them. Jill was very helpful and we spent some time talking about good books for kids!

I like to see the endcap displays on shelves – libraries need to do whatever we can do encourage everyone to come over and check out our materials!

 

I was not the only book fan in this library! This very nice display of books on Maud Hart Lovelace was pretty nearly cleaned out by students. Yes, this is indeed a great way to know your collection development and display selections are successful: if the shelves are empty, then great! People took home all the great stuff you have and are enjoying it too!

And of course, libraries are more than books! We share information of all sorts, in all kinds of formats. I was very excited to see this video room, with the green screen and the assorted equipment – that sound mixer is pretty much the same one as we have for our podcasts!

 

 

I was here for a very cool program they were doing with all kinds of makerspace items! Kids were gluing, sorting, attaching, spinning – everything was excellent, fun, slightly messy, and just generally exactly what you want to see happening in a library! Everyone learns best when we can get our hands on stuff and try it out in a flexible way – and that was exactly what happened here.

There was going to be more fun ahead in this makerspace! Just check out these kits, and the awesome stuff they were going to work with on another day, or in another class.

 

This is a library that interacts with their community members – the key to success in any library!! You can see the empty brackets here, all ready for March Madness. (Connecting with community members, with things they want and need, is always going to be the right answer!)

We did get to stop in the tech lab, so I could see the cool equipment for kids! You can just tell that kids are doing some really interesting things there!

 

Have we been to your library yet?? Save us the time in tracking you down, and send us a day or two that will be good for your schedule to have us dropping in for 30-ish minutes! You can email us at admin@cmle.org.