Advocacy
Advertising/Marketing
Reports- See examples linked on this Google doc
Library Media Center Advisory Committee-
Organizations
Book Award Voting
Community Partnerships
- The librarian will create an article detailing donations, projects, and important literacy information in the school newsletter every month.
- The librarian will also use social media such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to advertise books and events in the library to students and the public.
Reports- See examples linked on this Google doc
Library Media Center Advisory Committee-
- Students can volunteer to be a part of the advisory committee to suggest/ review books and materials to order and to advise and plan projects and programs for the library to hold. These advisory committees may meet before school, during lunch, or after school. Times and agendas will be announced on Twitter, school announcements, the school website, and/ or on posters in the hallway.
Organizations
- #ProjectLit- Students, parents, teachers, and community members may join #ProjectLit book clubs. Hartsburg-Emden is a certified chapter of the national #ProjectLit program wherein students read books about diverse peoples and discuss them. There are separate groups with middle school and young adult books, but interested parties are welcome to join whichever club they find most appropriate or interesting at the time. Meeting times will be made to accommodate those who are signed up on a per book basis.
Book Award Voting
- Monarch, Bluestem, Rebecca Caudill, and Lincoln Teen Choice Awards- Students will be offered the opportunity to participate in voting for whichever awards are of their reading level/ interest. The books will be booktalked by the librarian in library classes, online, and in classes (if requested by the teacher.) A special event will be planned to allow students the opportunity to vote and celebrate reading the requisite number of books to be eligible to vote (this number is different for each award.)
Community Partnerships
- Whistlestop Library- The community library in Emden, IL provides a wonderful summer program. All community students are invited to attend. Watch the spring school newsletters to see information, but they are typically held on Thursdays in June and/or July.
- Legacy Fund- The Hartem Alumni Association and the Legacy Fund are amazing partners in helping to obtain materials for the library. Contact School Board Member Kent Cross for more information.
- Stags Read Community Literacy- This is a program created by Nichole Folkman, school librarian. In this program, she strives to provide book access to every member of the community from home book deliveries for children, little free libraries, book giveaways at select school events, and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
- United Way of Logan County- Librarian Nichole Folkman has teamed up with the United Way of Logan County to provide Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to all children in Hartsburg-Emden school district under the age of 5. See the website for how to sign up. If you are in the Hartsburg-Emden school district but have a zip code that is not Hartsburg or Emden, simply email [email protected]. She can manually sign you up.