{"id":1993,"date":"2015-08-21T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:04","slug":"lockers-dont-just-hold-books-they-are-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/08\/21\/lockers-dont-just-hold-books-they-are-books\/","title":{"rendered":"lockers don&#8217;t just hold books, they are books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/mississippi-schools-literary-lockers-give-cool-factor-reading\/story?id=33159515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1994\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/08\/ps_book_lockers_01_mm_150818_16x9_992.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Ps_Book_lockers_01_mm_150818_16x9_992\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/08\/ps_book_lockers_01_mm_150818_16x9_992.jpg 992w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/08\/ps_book_lockers_01_mm_150818_16x9_992-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/08\/ps_book_lockers_01_mm_150818_16x9_992-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/08\/ps_book_lockers_01_mm_150818_16x9_992-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two 8th grade teachers at a Mississippi school spearheaded an initiative to paint lockers to look like enormous book spines. I can&#8217;t believe this actually happened! I&#8217;m not sure I believe the statement in the article about the project increasing the &#8220;cool factor&#8221; of books, but I absolutely believe that the teachers &#8220;spent hours &#8216;arguing and fighting and crying&#8217; over which book titles would go on the hallway&#8217;s 189 lockers.&#8221; I&#8217;m impressed that they put series books in order, next to each other &#8212; it&#8217;s like the lockers are organized library shelves. And now, apparently, students are compiling lists of how many of the locker books they&#8217;ve read. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/joan_petit\/\">Joan Petit<\/a>, for letting me know about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two 8th grade teachers at a Mississippi school spearheaded an initiative to paint lockers to look like enormous book spines. I can&#8217;t believe this actually happened! I&#8217;m not sure I believe the statement in the article about the project increasing the &#8220;cool factor&#8221; of books, but I absolutely believe that the teachers &#8220;spent hours &#8216;arguing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-w9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}