Teacher Services

Teacher Bags

Teacher Bags are perfect for a special assignment or unit! You give us a topic, we give you a bag filled with books and other library materials to support your curriculum.
Please fill out the form to let us know what you need—we just need a week's notice. We’ll contact you when your bag is ready to be picked up.

Request a Teacher Bag

Teacher Card

Want to select materials yourself for use in your classroom? The Teacher Card is the perfect solution. Contact Rachel at rhogan@lvdl.org to learn how to obtain an LVDL card for professional use.
Teacher Bags and Teacher Cards are available to educators at schools located within the library district.

Field Trips At LVDL

Plan a visit to Lake Villa District Library. Enjoy behind-the-scenes tours, engaging stories, and activities customized for your group.  Visits can be tailored to meet accessibility needs and interests.

Please share these guidelines with everyone involved in planning your visit. Our Youth Services Outreach Librarian, Rachel Hogan, will help plan your visit.

Request A Field Trip

Scheduling:

Please schedule your visit 8 weeks in advance. Visits are scheduled in the order we receive them. Please allow 2 business days for us to get back to you.  We may not be able to accommodate all requests.

All schools must provide adult chaperons for visits. For groups of more than 60 students, 2 visit times will need to be scheduled. 

Visits last between 60 and 90 minutes.

Logistics/What to Expect:

Your group may be divided up into 1-3 groups depending on number of students.

Each student will receive a bookmark, given to the teachers as a set.

Activities (pick 3):

• Circulation/Book Drop Tour: See where books get returned, return a book to our book return “robot.” Then go behind the scenes to check out the book return room and see how our giant robot sorts the books.
• Youth Services Tour: Get an introduction to where everything is on the Youth Services floor of the library and the fun things that you can do and checkout at the library.
• Storytime: We’ll do an age-level appropriate read aloud.
• Booktalks: Learn about books that are of high-interest to your group and/or books that match a theme or unit you are learning about in school (please contact us in advance for topics).
• Book Checkout: Students can bring their own library cards or check out on their teacher’s Teacher Card.
• Research lesson (open to single classes and takes the whole hour): Curated materials as well as a lesson in how to use them to research (please contact us at least 8 weeks in advance with unit information).
• How to search for materials & scavenger hunt (open to single classes and takes the whole hour): Overview of library materials that can be used for class projects, accompanied by a scavenger hunt of the general areas of the youth collection.

*Last minute additions to the prearranged visit plan cannot be accommodated.

Bus:

We have a limited budget to accommodate schools where bus fees are a barrier to access. If we can be of help, please let us know.

Photos:

We love taking pictures when classes visit the library – and sharing them with you. Feel free to let us know if there are children who do not have releases, and we’ll be sure not to take their pictures.