While a traditional "Back to School Night" consists of parents visiting the classrooms of their kids and meeting the teachers, my school uses this evening to promote the library. We have about 600 new books and 15 magazine subscriptions which we display on the tops of the bookcases and offer for purchase. The books are then donated to the library, and the name of the child is inscribed on a book plate in the front of the book. He then becomes the first person to check the book out. We are always amazed and thrilled by the generosity of the parents. We don't sell every book available for purchase but there are very few left at the end of the night. (And every book whether donated or not is added to the library collection)
Upper Left: The beginning of the evening
Upper Right: The tables where the volunteers will sit to handle the book purchases
Middle Left: Waiting in line to buy books
Middle Right; Filling out the form to pay for the book
Bottom Left: Our Library Assistant taking an armload of books into the workroom to prepare the book plates
Bottom Middle: Not too many books left
Bottom Right: Books in the workroom at the end of the evening are divided by the grades of the donating students.
What a clever idea! Hope it's okay to share this idea...told my daughter about it - she's on the PTO board - it would be a great idea for next year! Love the shots!
