As you may have figured out from previous posts (or my bio), I’m a school librarian. Being in the center of the building, I have doors on either end of my room and an open walkway that serves as a pass-through for staff and students when I’m not teaching. (I really ought to get a red carpet or something for that.)
One of the things I like to do is to put on some kind of ambient music. If I’m not teaching, the music is playing. I try to do something different every day – Disney music, an aquarium or undersea ambience, a beach, zen music, or instrumental covers of popular music. Today, it’s bookstore jazz. I know I’m not running a bookstore, but given how often kids tell me they’ve come to my desk to pay for their books with their library cards, it might as well be.
Can I open a Starbucks or Dunkin’ in the back of the library, add some armchairs, and make it feel a little more real?
One Miraculous Mama 
Your library seems so inviting. I love the idea of a red carpet.
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I would have loved for my school library to have had coffee in the back! I also wanted to hang a swing from my ceiling in my classroom too! Dreams are good!
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Please add a Starbucks! That would be a bigger fundraiser than the Boosterthon!
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As a fellow teacher-librarian, uhm, yes, let’s do that. Add your red carpet, and more doughnuts, and coffee for everyone! (Well, maybe not coffee for everyone.)
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I never thought about bookstore jazz as a genre, but I like it!
You need more flexible seating to make it feel a bit more like a coffee house! 🙂
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I love having instrumental music on in my classroom while my 7th-graders are working independently. Bookstore Jazz would make my day. I vote yes on the comfy chairs. Set up a Keurig, and you’re good to go!
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