Library Makeover Photos - Finally!

All praise be to Allah SWT, I finally remembered to bring husband's digital camera to take pictures of the mosque library.

Daughter has a cold since last Thursday, so today I left her at home with husband.

The Imam asked me to help 6 girls (ranging from 10 to 14 years old) to learn how to make posters based on Islamic teachings. Before the class started at 10:30am, I went home at around 10am to pick up posters that I bought days ago and also a box of magic markers. All praise be to Allah SWT I bought a book "Poster Ideas Book" at Hobby Lobby and used it to give ideas to the girls on designing layout and format. I drew some sample formats on the white board as shown on top.

In the picture below, this side of the wall is lined with books for younger children and adult reference materials.

In the picture below, several monitors and computers used to occupy the top of storage cabinet. (The storage cabinet is where I found a bunch of Sunday School materials when I was cleaning the place.) I used a white plastic sheet to cover them up since there is no other place in the mosque to store them. To make the library look more attractive, I display some children's books and some books about Islam.


In the picture below, I used stencils to cut out the alphabet letters and pasted them on a long banner paper. Since I have some maps on hand, I put them up above the banner to hide the ugly cork background. I found the slogan "Dig Into a Good Book" from the LM_Net archive http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/, a mailing list for library media specialists. (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!)

Since daughter is having running nose, I left the mosque early at noon although weekend Islamic classes end at 2pm.

Next week, more students will be sent to me to learn how to make posters. I hope that daughter will be well by then, Allah SWT willing.