ABCs of DCGMS Library: J is for January Jackets

Today's ABCs of DCGMS library post is brought to you by the letter J for January Jackets.

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Here in Iowa, our winters--and January in particular!--can be wicked cold, but the jackets we featured were book jackets, of course! With just a little passive programming, we were able to focus our attention on several books, many of them new to the library just that month. Using a white board speech bubble from the Scholastic catalog, we highlighted multiple books from several different genres. Every book was spoken for after 3 days' time on the shelf; students were quite eager to read them! Mission accomplished!

See a book you're interested in reading? We still have them, and you're welcome to ask about the January Jackets books when school resumes. See you then!

January Jackets

Over the holiday break we received dozens of new books--and the question was, how do we promote them? Since we had this cute speech bubble from Scholastic, it seemed like a good idea to use it in some kind of display.

And January Jackets was born!

Each school day in January a different book is featured with a small teaser on the speech bubble. Students are welcome to access our Instagram and/or Snapchat accounts (@DCGLibraries) for the "full" book talk if they're interested.

 Some of the books include those new titles we received over the holiday break, like Lifeboat 12 and The Benefits of Being an Octopus.

Other books are titles we've had in the library but students maybe aren't as familiar with, like The Night Gardener and Thornhill.

The interest in the books--both from students and teachers!--has been great, and most days students ask to check out the featured book. Some even step into the library before school starts just to see that day's January Jackets title. Stay tuned--we're only half-way through January!