The Larned Middle School library hosted a book fair with a 1950s diner theme in February. Students participated in counting contests and trivia to win prizes. The library staff sold mini root beer floats and used the proceeds to purchase books requested by teachers. The book fair was a success, bringing in $3,570 in sales and $2,037 in free books.

1. LARNED MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY
FEBRUARY MONTHLY REPORT
GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST JANICE KNEISLEY, LIBRARY ASSISTANT
Book Fair Diner
The LMS Library hosted the
Scholastic Book Fair February
9th - 21st. The book fair
centered around an oldies diner
theme. With the help of 12
student book fair crew members
and Mrs. Kneisley, the library was fair goodies. many enjoyed eating them.
transformed into a diner filled The proceeds from the floats
with a counter, jukebox and large As part of our Book Fair went into the One 4 Books
portioned food. Diner, the library staff and Program, which encourages
book fair crew sold mini root
Each day of the book fair, schools to raise money for
beer floats to the LMS
students could participate in the 3 the purchase of books for an
students for 10 cents.
counting contests and the Book organization in need or their
Dillons assisted the library
Fair Diner trivia. The winner of own school. We decided to
with a $20.00 gift card
each counting contest received use the funds to purchase
toward the purchase of 20
the items being counted (bubble books from the teacher
pails of ice cream. The
gum, pickles and jelly beans). classroom wishlist. We were
students had a great time
Any student who completed the serving up the floats and (continued on pg. 2)
trivia had their name placed in a
drawing for a basket full of book
Book Fair Crew man the Cashier Can you believe that...? Got Bieber Fever?
table.

2. LMS LIBRARY
INTERNET were able to purchase $64.00 worth of classroom books that students in all
IDENTITY grades will be able to enjoy.
After the fair, the book fair crew celebrated with a pizza party and a
brainstorming session for next year’s book fair. The theme will be...did you
really think I was going to tell you? You’ll just have to wait for next year to find
out.
More photos are available on the LMS Library Website.
Card Catalog: Allows Book Fair Results
students and staff to search
the collection at school or
home--http://98.172.116.52/
simple/?
Book Fair Sales
$3570
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Free Books
$2037
LMS Library Website: Credit
$14.17
General information on
One 4 Books $64.9
library policies & procedures, 3 Making a guess in the
programs and Teen Advisory One 4 Books money
was used counting contest
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obtained from the
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Mission
teachers.
The Larned Middle
School Library will be an
inviting, user-friendly hub
providing opportunities
for active, engaging and
challenging learning for
students and staff
through various media
resources, programming
and collaboration. The Serving up some floats
LMS Library will provide
a quality program that
will enable students to
be lifelong learners and
enhance the curriculum
Some high school TAG
and technology
members came to help us
standards of Larned
serve floats
Middle School.

3. Data Snapshots
LMS LIBRARY STATISTICS, FEBRUARY 2011
Total Circulation 1300
5th Grade Circulation 236
6th Grade Circulation 253
7th Grade Circulation 86
8th Grade Circulation 125
Other 600
Card Catalog Total Page Hits 419
Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 31
Filled Denied
Total Resource Requests 28 3
Computer(s): Library Desktops 1 0
Computer(s): Laptops 23 3
Multi-media Cart/Projector 0 0
TV with DVD/VCR 0 0
Video Camera/Camcorder 0 0
Other 4 0
Having
fun at the
Book Fair
Diner!