Teachers and students are encouraged and supported by the librarian to also use the library as a venue for creativity and academics of all sorts.

This pictorial is an example of one such event. Mrs. Byrd's English classes utilized the library's fiction collection in a "Spine Label Poetry" workshop. 

Spine Label Poetry is a form of "Found Poetry", ...Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems....[and books!]

The teacher taught about this form of poetry prior to the workshop. The librarian brought examples up to the English classes to learn more about this form of poetry.

The day of the workshop, students had hundreds of fiction books available to them in the large reference room. They were encouraged to explore the titles and create their poems.

The process was a fun and interesting way to come up with original poems. The students embraced the activity and exhibited all kinds of creativity. Many of them rekindled their interest in reading and checked out books to read at home...a true bonus to the day!!!