Last year we had a great year in our LLC with fostering reading culture! We had our first book club, and we launched Battle of the Books for high school students in our district. So much fun!
This year… it’s a bit like the air has gone out of the tires. Not many students have shown up for either the book club or BoB. However, I remain undaunted. Just have to change my strategy and visit the classes. Frankly, this is the part I love anyway. I’d much rather make connections with students by heading out to their classes, than by waiting for them to wander in. Plus, I really love the collection of books we’ve put together for out BoB competition. Check out our website for the list (we’re only doing grades 8-10 this year, and hopefully adding 11-12 next year). In the end, this was a great, and valuable experience for our students and it will continue to be, especially since our school (unwisely in my thinking) got rid of school wide silent reading several years ago. Now it falls on the English Dept, so I’m working to help bring reading out across the school.
Another classic, it DEAR. I love it, and teacher’s like it when they remember that it’s happening. I try to be a problem solver, and so when teachers protested that they couldn’t participate because they didn’t have the time to bring students to the library, I started putting together shoeboxes full of books specifically targeting their students. It has been a great success! We have way more participation, and students (and teachers) have found some gems they didn’t we had. 
My library partner came across this video for DEAR by Parkland Learning Commons (Yes, our very own instructor!), and we are absolutely excited about making our own video. They used zombies; we’re thinking handmaids! Great literacy tie in on so many levels!
The last item I want to try more of this year is buying and adding audio books to our collection via Destiny. A couple of schools in our district and our district library do this, so I have some people I can call on (YAY!). The timing for this was fortuitous. We had our first technology committee meeting and one of the LAC teachers brought up the fact that their ipads were getting old and they were worried about losing the audio books that they had purchased. I mentioned that I wanted to start putting them on our Destiny page for all students to access, and now we’re excited to get going with this experiment! Hopefully this will be one more great reason to help get our students using our resources more often!