Library Lovers’ Day

On Friday 14 February, we celebrated Library Lovers’ Day in the Primary Library, with the festivities and activities set to continue for the next month, culminating in March with the annual Book Café!

Library Lovers’ Day is an international event that acknowledges the valuable role libraries play in our lives. It is a day for students and teachers to promote a love of reading and foster a passion for learning.

The Primary School students have been engaged in a wide range of activities to celebrate Library Lovers’ Day, including the creation of a huge display where students wrote what the library means to them inside individual red hearts. Some of these words include peaceful, calm, happy, magical, and books.

During their library lesson, the Year 6 students participated in “Love at First Line,” an activity where the first line of a fiction book is read, and the students guessed which book the line was from. Many students borrowed these books, as the first lines were so enticing!

By joining in the “Library Lovers’ Day Book Scavenger Hunt”, the students were encouraged to search for specific books in the library within a limited time frame. Examples of clues provided include: a book with a futuristic storyline, a book first published before 1999, and a book that teaches about technology.

A final highlight has been the reading of library-related texts during lessons. These include Midnight at the Library by SCEGGS Old Girl Ursula Dubosarsky (Class of 1978), The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein, Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, and The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore by William Joyce.

The girls’ love for the Primary Library is evident both in their daily interactions and their enthusiastic participation in these activities, fostering a vibrant and engaging reading culture.

Karen McBride
Primary Librarian