{"id":244,"date":"2018-06-13T21:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/?p=244"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:12:45","slug":"the-secret-to-getting-all-the-library-books-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/2018\/06\/13\/the-secret-to-getting-all-the-library-books-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to Getting All the Library Books Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6344089-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2231\" style=\"width:416px;height:624px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6344089-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6344089-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6344089-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6344089-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6344089-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pexels-cottonbro-studio-6344089-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pexels &#8212; cottonbro studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Are you frustrated at the end of every school year (yeah, yeah, not by faculty pep rallies in a 100 degree meeting room; not by professional development courses one week before the summer brain drain; not by parents complaining about NEXT year&#8217;s teacher&#8230;whom they haven&#8217;t even met yet)? No, I mean by the very thing librarians LIVE FOR! Getting back all the library books at the end of the school year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s the Secret?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Want to know the secret for getting all the library books back? Forget the students. Forget the parents. Go after the teachers! Use all your powers of <del datetime=\"2018-06-13T21:16:06+00:00\">bribery<\/del>, <del datetime=\"2018-06-13T21:16:06+00:00\">coercion<\/del>, professional partnership-ness to entice the teachers to have a stake in getting all their students&#8217; books back. Teachers are very competitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;My teal and pink chevron classroom banners are prettier than yours.&#8221;<br>&#8220;My students adopted a polar bear and saved the ice cap.&#8221;<br>&#8220;My students jumped 40 Lexile levels this year.&#8221;<br>&#8220;My students are so bad, they are headed for juvie.&#8221; NO, WAIT. Wrong kind of competition!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/End-of-Year-Graph-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245\" style=\"width:498px;height:334px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/End-of-Year-Graph-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/End-of-Year-Graph-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/End-of-Year-Graph-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/End-of-Year-Graph-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/littlelibraryoflearning.com\/staging\/9682\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/End-of-Year-Graph.jpg 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Each year, I post an ongoing graph outside the library with the teachers&#8217; names on it (yes, yes, it is supposed to represent the teacher&#8217;s students&#8230;but&#8230;) Here is what I hear in the hallway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I want <del datetime=\"2018-06-13T21:16:06+00:00\">my<\/del> our name on the graph, people!&#8221;<br>&#8220;Don&#8217;t we want to be the first third-grade to get on the graph?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Who still owes a book&#8230;who is holding us back?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I had one teacher whooping in the hallway when his name went on the graph&#8230;and we had to interrupt his class in music to share the news!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Another class begged me to declare a &#8220;tie&#8221; with another class, since I was not in the library when their last student came to return his book! (Loophole! They&#8217;ll be getting lawyers next!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I&#8217;m laughing my head off. But I got back about 1,000 books already, and I am down to a dirty dozen holdouts. One week and two days to go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Give your students some virtual practice in shelving books! 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