Posts filed under ‘school libraries’
Boris Johnson and the revenge of the school librarian
Apparently, one of the books behind him is Roald Dahl’s The Twits, though we can’t see it.
Thanks, Janey Street Thornton!
loud shoes in the library
Craig Conley tells me that in the 1970s at Mark Twain elementary school in Webb City, Missouri, he had no dress shoes other than tap shoes, so on picture day he was in a situation much like this poor fellow (illustration from Daily Universe, Jan. 16, 1969):
librarian gangs
Somehow I neglected to blog this when I first heard about it in 2016. Not 100% sure this is real, or which Campbell Elementary School is responsible (there are several in the U.S.). Thanks, Rachel Woodward!
lockers don’t just hold books, they are books
Two 8th grade teachers at a Mississippi school spearheaded an initiative to paint lockers to look like enormous book spines. I can’t believe this actually happened! I’m not sure I believe the statement in the article about the project increasing the “cool factor” of books, but I absolutely believe that the teachers “spent hours ‘arguing and fighting and crying’ over which book titles would go on the hallway’s 189 lockers.” I’m impressed that they put series books in order, next to each other — it’s like the lockers are organized library shelves. And now, apparently, students are compiling lists of how many of the locker books they’ve read. Awesome.
Thanks, Joan Petit, for letting me know about this.
fun with encyclopedias, part 3
Some clever high school student has discovered that the spines of the World Book encyclopedia can be rearranged to spell out “Boob Dick.” (As you may recall, “Dork Bowl” is also a possibility.) Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Library Shenanigans 