Library Activities

Library Activities attracting users towards Library

The main objectives of school library are to facilitate optimal use of knowledge by students and staff and to encourage the reading habit of students and staff members. Library activities play a vital role to attract the students towards the library to fulfill its objectives. Here some activities are being suggested which may be conducted in Libraries .

1. Book Review 

• Students should be told to write the review of the books they read. The best reviews may be read during morning assembly on a prescribed day.

2. Clipping File Preparation

• Groups of students can be made for collecting a specific information from news papers, magazines and from any other resources to prepare clipping file.

3. Green Day Celebration 

*To promote reduce, reuse and recycle theory, every Library should organise Green Day on the very first day of academic session. Students should be motivated to gift their books to the students of next batch.

4. Quiz Competition

 • Quiz competition may be organized time to time. Quiz may include GK quiz, book quiz, quiz on eminent personalities etc.

5. Book Fair

 • Book Fair should be organised by any external agency like NBT, CBT, local book vendor etc

6. Book Exhibition

*  Book exhibition should be organised in the library regularly on special occasions, eg. – Hindi book exhibition may be organised during “Hindi Pakhwada”, sanskrit books should be exhibited during Sanskrit week, books on Premchand may be exhibited on the birthday of Premchand etc.

7. Book Week celebration 

• The week-long event is an annual celebration of books written for young people, and hopes to inspire a love of reading. Schools, libraries, and communities across the country host numerous events and activities that connect readers with books and celebrate the joy of reading.

8. DEAR day celebration 

• Drop Everything And Read 

(DEAR) day may be celebrated to motivate the students to read the books.

9. Story Telling 

• It’s and excellent way to engage young students and introduce them to the pleasure of reading.

10. Debate on renowned characters

 • Such types of activities inspire the young students to read about the characters.

11. Best Reader Award 

• The best reader award may be announced on Annual function every year which will inspire the other students to become a good reader.

12. Birthday celebration of renowned authors

 • This activity will inspire the students to know about the works of those authors.

13. Meet the authors 

Famous authors may be invited to meet the students and to deliver a speech to inspire the children to read their works.

14. Visit of Local Librar

y • A visit of local library should be arranged for students to make them aware of other library services.

15. Preparation of wall magazine

 • A wall magazine is a periodical run on a notice board, especially in an educational institute where the students and other members of the institution can post their articles, poems, drawings and other such compositions to share with each other. They can be in the form of collage giving a message.

16. Inspiring Talks

 • This activity may be done with the help of videos, slides etc. regarding personality development, self confidence, honesty, truth etc.

17. Important day celebration 

 Some important days like – Librarian’s day, Independence day, Republic day, Children’s day, Youth day, Women’s day, Teacher’s day, birth anniversaries of famous personalities like- Mahatma Gandhi etc may be celebrated by providing the related books, magazines to the students.

18. National Library week celebration 

• ILA Indian library Association declared 14th November as National Library Day, Since 1968, 14-20 November has been celebrated as National Library week all over India and various programmes are organised to let the public know about the libraries. Some activities like poster making, book jacket , book mark designing, poem recitation may be conducted during this week.

19. Library News Letter 

• Library newsletter makes it easy for the students to stay upto-date on events, programmes, services, new arrivals in the library. News letter may be published on monthly, quarterly basis.

20. Book of the Month • This activity plays a vital role to highlight a book among students. The book will inspire other students to read it.

21. Slogan Writing 

• Slogan writing competition may be oraganised on Positive attitude, Truth, Education, Books, Libraries etc issues.

22. Know your Library

 • This programme may be organised for the students of Primary classes and for class VI. This may be treated as an orientation programme. The main objective of the user orientation is to introduce the library facilities, resources, services and library techniques to the users. The orientation programme makes the users to familiarize to the resources and increases the use of library.

23. Summer Reading Challenge

 • The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays. Students can sign up at their local library, then read six library books of their choice.

24. Awareness and Volunteer Activities

 • Choose an important social issue such as Child labour every month and hold an awareness event. Select relevant books and ask a teacher or famous local personality to talk in the school library.

25. News and Views 

• This activity helps students to understand and analyse a news story from different view point.

26. G.K. Hunt

 • Students will find general knowledge bits from the news papers of the day. They shall be divided in to groups and each group will scan one news paper. These general knowledge questions will be asked in morning assembly.

27. Word of the Day 

• Students will find difficult/ new word from the newspaper. The word will be displayed on the library news board with its meaning.

28. Library Blogging 

• As an activity students may be told to write their book reviews on library blog. Photographs of the best readers, best books, best book reviews, reading room, library cornors should be included in library blog.