Things to Think About:
- It takes a lot of time to wrap books and put a description on it. If you have a student group, this is a great activity for them. Order pizza!
- We wrote a category for the book (i.e. history, psychology, technology) and then wrote a descriptor.
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While this activity can be done anytime, the theme is also a good one for around Valentine’s Day.
Blind Date with a Book
Objective: Students will be able to check out a book on a subject that they might not have chosen otherwise.
Why: This motivates students to read in different areas and gets quality books to circulate.
Supplies: library books, brown wrapping/shipping paper, scissors, tape, markers
How To:
- Pull books to wrap. Look for books that tell a story as well as being informational.
- Look for books in areas of high interest but probably haven’t circulated.
- Before you wrap the books, look at the content to see what short description you could write on the cover to get someone to check it out.
- Wrap the entire book – not just a “book cover” - because you don’t want students flipping through the book, and then write a description on it.
- Students can only unwrap the book once they’ve taken it to the Circulation Desk to check it out.