The following are responses to my post on how to recognize student book donors.
Do you have any newsletters at your school? Or how about morning announcements?
Margaret P. Simmons, MLS
Middle School Library Media Specialist
The June Shelton School
15720 Hillcrest Rd.
Dallas, TX 75248
972-774-1772, Ext. 254
msimmons@shelton.org<mailto:msimmons@shelton.org>
We just put book plates in the front of the book. "This book was donated to XYZ
library by John Doe"
Rachel Kerr
Library Media Specialist
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School
Cheektowaga-Sloan UFSD
Actually we made our own using a software program. We just printed them out on
adhesive backed paper and pressed them into the front of the books.
Another suggestion is to use blank book plates (available at library suppliers and
places like B&N stores). Just add the student name and date and glue into the cover
of the book.
We used large address labels to indicate that books in the collection were donated
by our PTO. Once again we used Word and added the information and date to the
labels.The labels were stuck into every book in the set of books (e.g. president
biographies) donated.
Hope this helps,
Josephine Dervan, MLS -Adjunct Instructor
School of Communication and Information
Rutgers University
dervan at optonline.net
I am sure you probably thought about this but there are book plates you can
purchase to put inside a book from Highsmith or Demco for book donations. Another
idea that I have heard is to set up a display that says John Doe's Picks or
something like it. But I have found that often just by placing the book plates
inside the books, another person will check out the book and see the plate and they
in turn will donate a book so their name appears inside one as well.
Brenda Lemon [blemon@473mail.net]
Do you have a student newspaper? If so give them a credit there, everyone likes
seeing their name in print. Then add a bookplate with the donor's name and an
option for a message such as "in honor of..."
Elizabeth Varley [Elizabeth_Varley@wmsde.org]
We place a book plate that we create and print on label paper inside the front
cover of the book.
Diane Mankowski
Media Center Director
Glenbard South High School
23W200 Butterfield Rd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
(630) 942-6691
diane_mankowski@glenbard.org<mailto:diane_mankowski@glenbard.org>
You might try displaying the book with a donated by sticker in the front and
reminding the kids to check the donation table.
Mary Taylor
Reed Elementary / Thomas Middle Schools
Holdenville, OK
mtaylor@holdenville.k12.ok.us
Besides book plates inside the books, Rebecca, do you have room for a bulletin
board?
If you have a lot, you could make the pictures small but make a donor tree and then
attach pics of the book covers with the donor's name listed below it. Or even have
the student pose with the book and get shot of them to put on the tree.
Cherie LeMay
Librarian
Villa Duchesne Library
St. Louis, MO 63131
cherielibrarian@hotmail.com<mailto:cherielibrarian@hotmail.com>
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