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Ensuring Your Snapshot Day is Successful
A little planning will go a long way toward ensuring the success of your library's Snapshot Day.

Suggested steps:
 * 1) Select your day: Study your library's November calendar. Which day would provide a snapshot of your library program?
 * 2) Contact the other librarians in your school district. Share the date you have chosen and ask each to share the date they have selected. Get all the school libraries in your district involved! Read about the success of one school district last year when they joined forces (and collected data) to share their Snapshot Day with their school board.
 * 3) Create a folder (either physical or virtual). Items to include:
 * list of data to collect
 * Snapshot Day bookmark template
 * Snapshot Day patron comment template
 * Media Release form
 * Your data from last year's Snapshot Day (if you participated)
 * 1) Consider what you wish your Snapshot Day to reveal about your program. Do you need to collect more than the data SCASL requests?
 * 2) Enlist help:
 * Do you need an assistant, student, or teacher to serve as designated photographer?
 * Do you have students who can be your Snapshot Day "cheerleaders"? They should encourage other students to visit the library, use the library's resources, check out books, and complete the patron comment slips.

At least two weeks before your Snapshot Day:
 * 1) Inform your principal of your plans.
 * 2) Create flyers and announcements to inform your teachers and students about your Snapshot Day. (See Promoting Your Snapshot Day)
 * 3) Add information to your library website concerning Snapshot Day.
 * 4) Customize the Snapshot Day bookmark template; make and distribute copies to your teachers and students.
 * 5) Create badges for your designated photographers and student "cheerleaders."
 * 6) Review your data from last year's Snapshot Day. What can you do to improve your faculty and student participation?
 * 7) Plan displays that will highlight the best of your resources.

One week before your Snapshot Day:
 * 1) Make copies of the Snapshot Day patron comment form.
 * 2) Make copies of the Media Release form.
 * 3) Meet with your designated photographer(s). Discuss with them the types of photos you wish them to take.
 * 4) Meet with your designated student "cheerleaders."
 * 5) Set up your planned displays.

The day before your Snapshot Day:
 * 1) Send reminder notices to your photographers and "cheerleaders."
 * 2) Send a friendly email reminder to your faculty about Snapshot Day.
 * 3) Post Snapshot Day signs at the entrance of your library and at the Circulation Desk.
 * 4) Place copies of the patron comment slips on tables and at the Circulation Desk.
 * 5) Set up a container or spot on your Circulation Desk for completed patron comment slips to be submitted.