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Welcome 'magiejpl'! No problem about starting a new topic --we're just glad you found the forum and shared your great book display photos.

I love the leather jacket wallet --where did you find that?

In the name of housekeeping, I'm going to change the name of this thread to "More book displays" so as to distinguish it from the original topic posted by our Moderator 'saxton.' That thread was getting a bit long and slow to load. For your future reference, you can click the "reply" button in the top right corner of the post, which keeps your reply inside the existing thread. What matters most to me is that you get involved in the discussions --whichever way works for you!

Thanks for the welcome. I'm happy to be here. :-)

Sorry, I'm unable to tell you where we got the motorcycle jacket notebook. It was a gift to one of the staff.

I'm also sorry that my list of books wasn't the suggestions I got from fiction_L. They had great suggestions, but being an academic library we didn't have the inventory. I wish I had thought of that before I wasted people's time. I was sort of awestruck with the number of actual Harley books we own.

As with many displays, it is after gathering materials that you realize you lack the books to back it up or vice-versa. In this case I had an abundance of materials and lacked the books. So, the long of it, new books are in the works.

Maggie ;-) www.maggiereads.blogspot.com

We had the coolest idea turn into the kewlest display! We were handed a theme, "Move Mathematical Mountains" as a promotion for the math department. They called it the QEP or Quality Enhancement Plan, hence QEP @ NWCC background.

This is our one mountain of math books! Now that we know we can do this, we have thought of other uses: christmas tree, wedding cake, pyramid, etc.

Hope someone in the Web Junction community can recreate this in their own library.

Maggie :-) www.maggiereads.blogspot.com

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Maggie,

You are one creative lady! I love this idea and I can see the possibilites. It would be great to see how others might use this idea. I love your use of background colored cloth to make the display stand out.

Please continue to share your wonderful displays.

This is great and I can't wait to steal the idea and make it my own, too! Maggie :-)

I agree that this is a great display. What I love about it is the simplicity and low cost. Who needs specialized or expensive props when a box of kleenex works so well?

Thanks for joining Merrill and I look forward to your displays!

You may think deja vu, but no, we reused the Sept 11 display ribbon for this breast cancer awareness display.

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This mini book display needs a little something, but I'm not sure what.

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Hello Merrill & a hearty Welcome! I've been away on vacation so please excuse the late reply.

Glad you like what you see. Of course sharing is the whole idea of the forum and particulary this topic. Hope you'll continue to join us here and show us your displays as you create them. Looking forward to seeing how you do the tear jerker theme. I borrowed this one from someone else. Their display had a clothesline with hankies. Many ways to say the same thing.

We're almost ready to publish that coffee table book with photos of library book displays! ;)

I'm interested in the graphic novel display, especially in light of http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/14/arts/NA_A-E_BKS_US_Banned_Graphic_Novels.php ]ongoing controversies about their appropriateness. I know they are really popular with teens, but I'd like to see more understanding and enthusiasm built up among adults. Wouldn't it be cool to arrange a display of graphic novels that would appeal to grown-ups?
Check out the /forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2993&tstart=0 ]GN & manga topic for some book suggestions. Art Spiegelman's Maus is a classic.

Carol, keep up the great work!

Jean Jakoboski, of the Babcock Public Library, Ashford, Connecticut contributed this picture of a her display for Breast Cancer Awareness Month this past November. She had originally seen the picture of my display and made it her own with pink ribbons and book selections. Thanks for sharing this picture Jean.


Breast Cancer Awareness November 2006

I have some more displays! The decoys are really hard to see. Next time I will use less greenery! I free handed the "Curl up with a Book" display. Check out my blog, if you are interested in how I made it.

Here's a couple of Black History Month displays...Enjoy!

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Love it! Great Display!

We wanted to do a "cat/dog raining theme, too, BUT maroon, black, and gray umbrellas don't shout out spring. We decided to go nautical. Ahoy!

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Here's our March Madness display...

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You are a natural for this forum. I love your displays and all the pics. Keep em' coming.

This one's hopping good! Bright, cheerful and easy. I do love the way you arrange things. How far are you from Connecticut? Seriously, I'm really glad to see your posts. I'm certain they will inspire others as well as myself.

We focused on Billy Collins; although, Walt Whitman's face is on the poster. Enjoy!

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This display was created really cheap with an old typewriter and newspapers. It highlights our new reporting books!

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As usual you've blown me away. Great display and usage of the patron's lures. I like the thought of fishing lures and books that lure! You are a natural display maker!

I'm in need of some inspiration at the moment. Need a catchy display. Will have to look at the posts and see what I can borrow!

Great idea and an excellent display! Nice parody for the title. How did this one circulate???

What a neat display and so reasonable to do! Who would have thought cottonballs would just stick. It's amazing to see what can be done with inexpensive materials and a little imagination. Way to go!

I love the display, Saxton!

Lots of times I'm way too busy to annotate books, preferring to go with a bookmark. I realize there is usually a summary on the copyright page, but that feels like cheating. The students assume that I have read it and those are my words instead of the publisher's!?!

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This September 11 display was easy and we hope thought provoking...

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Our kids have a hard time navigating the campus map. So, we enlarged it and added polaroids of the buildings to help. Hope this idea helps others!

Yes, it is a lovely display --and one of my favorite topics! With the growing (no pun, really) popularity of neighborhood farmers' markets all over the country, this should be an attention-getter.

I can't see the titles of the books on display, but they look like mostly children's books. How about including adult titles like
[url http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47717861&referer=brief_results ]Hope's Edge: the next diet for a small planet[/url]
or [url http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77011588&referer=brief_results ]Plenty: one man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally[/url]?

I'd love to know what is there in your display.

I like the new backdrop. It's very different from the carroll you usually use. Love the bail of hay, too. Every once in a while, you can get a miniture from the grocery for desk top displays. At least in Mississippi...

After the rousing success of our autumn display centered around a hay bale for Sept., Oct. and Nov. we decided to go for another multi-use backdrop. We came up with a fireplace backdrop that would fit in the knee-hole of our circ desk. I drew the design, our director found the fireplace paper, my dear husband did the work and the staff decorated. We plan to use the resulting fireplace for the months of December, January and February with seasonal books in December, cold stories in January and romantic reads in February.

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Here is one of our Christmas displays which deal with books. Easy and affordable, I used a coordinated group of wrapping paper and bags bought as a local school fundraiser. Printed the lettering from Microsoft Publisher then taped to the wrapping paper and proceeded to cut out. I'm a matcher. I wrapped the books then tore the wrapping so the titles could peak through. Whet the reader's appetite.

The original idea came from a Georgia Teachers' website by Sadie Longood, Dallas (Oregon) High School Librarian, saintsadie@yahoo.com the website if you would like to see her display is http://www.clayton.k12.ga.us/edusvc/instruct/bulletinboards/holidaysandseasons.asp

I found this idea from Bibliobulb on Flickr and modified it for our college library...



Um, yum! All the staff benefitted from this display. We were afraid the chocolate would melt under the lights so a very smart person said we needed to eat the goods and fill the wrappers with cardboard. Oh, one could use Herstory on the bar, too.

The background is aluminum foil!

This is our Shel Silverstein display in honor of the new biography, A Boy Named Shel, by Lisa Rogak. We got The Giving Tree and made these leaves and trunk using Silverstein's tree as a guide. All done on the cheap with paper, black magic marker, and scissors.

I attached the "Snow Better Time to Read" just for ideas...

Carol, I love your bed o'books idea and look forward to seeing the end result! I would have gone with "Take an Author to Bed!"

Ok Maggie,

Here's my bed...



I used the carrel as the head board, added a comforter, pillow/sham and ruffle. Due to space and safety concerns we tacked down the spread. I wish I had added batting to the table we used for the bed before tacking down the comforter. Oh well, it made a hit just as it was!

Work with what you've got....You are the best at creating displays on a limited budget. We try our best to produce in our limited space!
Carol

Just as you were posting about your wonderful display for Teen Tech Week, I started a [url http://webjunction.org/forums/click.jspa?messageID=50493#50493]thread in another forum[/url] asking folks what they are doing. I'm going to cross-post over there as well, so people can see the great work you did.

Emily

Ah Maggie, This one's from our Children's Librarian Megan. Yes, it pops!
Carol

Adorable and quite colorful! I always love your displays.

We have not used publisher in the way you describe but I have alerted our Children's Librarian and we'll give it a go soon.

Carol

Here's a picture of our latest display - Saxton B.'s Locks of Reading Salon...
This display was easy to create and very low cost. My husband was kind enough to make the mirror from my prototype. Our local beauty school, Brio Academy of Cosmetology, Willimantic , CT provided the mannequin head and beautiful hair-do. We included materials, both adult and children's, with beauty shop operators, and stories that have a strong focus on hair from a list compiled by the members of fiction_l. Add a hairdryer, curling iron, curlers, cape, clips, and other tools of the trade and you have a neat looking display, if I do say so myself! Click on any of the pictures for a larger view...

I really appreciate the compliment Maggie as I love your displays.

The mirror is made out of a piece of pressboard covered with a silver, mirror like, vinyl. It pays to be junk pickers. We learned a great deal from making the fireplace display. The wings are reinforced with tape on the backside to hold the shape but the vinyl is spray glued to all first and then folded. Not wanting any breakable glass in the display, we used styrofoam balls for the bulbs. They are just two way taped to the display. The tape is strong. Hope it holds up for the time the mirror is up. All of the hair spray and such are empty and sealed to keep our young patrons safe.

I added a couple of thumbnail closeups to better show the detail.

Whew Maggie, I cannot keep up with you! What a great idea. I particularly like the "play" on words which is a play on words in itself . This would be perfect for our teen section. I really get a kick out of your displays.

Speaking of play on words, my director thought it might be neat to do a display with the words MAY I. We were thinking of this for the month of May and thought we might use children's books with themes of manners or even the old game Mother May I? You're so good at this....any other thoughts how we might use the word MAY in a display. We were trying to stay away from flowers.

When I clicked on your picture it took me to flickr where I saw another neat idea of yours. I really like the "let your mind grow, read" display. I was thinking of something like this for our knee-hole space, you know the one we used for the fireplace. Can you tell me a bit more about how you created that one?

You can never figure what will happen with displays. This one seems to be staying intact. I thought kids would be running off with things but so far, so good. It is housed in the adult dept. so that probably helps. I can remember a few displays that were constantly being moved around and changed. One was the Reigning Cats and Dogs. The stuffed cats and dog ended up in various places in the library. Another was one that featured diet books. This one had lots of pieces of play food and they would be rearranged all the time. The magic display prompted many aspiring magicians to try out the props but I didn't mind. Thank heavens no one decided to use the tissues in the Tearjerkers display!

Thank you for your comments about the beauty salon. I am particularly fond of this one. We DO want the books to circulate. This is the main reason for doing the display. I can never figure what will circulate well and what will not. So far the Beauty Display has only been mildly successful as far as circ goes. We threw together a Women's History Display that couldn't stay stocked and the most popular ever is still The Sea Adventures from two summers ago. Sometimes people will ask if they can take a book from the displays which makes me wonder if we should put some signage that states that the books on display can circulate.

Any thoughts on what increases circualtion of materials?

We also have limited space for displays and are always looking for creative ways to feature some of our wonderful books that are lost in the stacks. Displays do not have to be large, sometimes a few books and good signage can be all that's needed. I often forget that more is not always better and can be confusing to the senses of our patrons.

Incorporating a survey (sob-story rating) into your display is a good way to get feedback from the public. Wish I had thought of that. It's these little ideas that make this forum so valuable. Though I didn't use this idea for my tearjerker display, I'm certain I can use it in some way in the future.

Also, hanging items from our ceilings is another way to make use of "dead" air. We hung lanterns around our circ desk for Chinese New Year as part of marketing for programs and materials. We loved the look so much that in March we hung 45RPM records to draw attention to a new collection of cd's. These caused quite a bit of comment and helped to get people to look at the new cd's. We took these down recently and the place looks empty. We are thinking up other ways to use the hanging space. Maybe book covers. Have any ideas?

This display was created by our page, Kayte, with a pair of scissors and some color paper! She developed the theme, decorations, placement, and slogan. I did the grass.

Love the Phantom o/t Opera display, Merrill! Looks like a professional did it.

One of the other things that I forgot to mention about this display is the use of words. Maggie and her team often use the word READ in some way. And isn't this what it's all about...getting patrons to the books and reading! Way to go!

Thanks for the positive feedback on the Phantom. That was my favorite so far but I'm a real Phantom fan anyway. It was a lot of fun to set up!

Thanks for posting these. Here's another fine example that a creative book display does not have to cost a lot of money. I really like the way you pulled together the theme of color and the displayed books. A very neat way to circulate some books that have been hiding in the stacks.

You also mention a good source for inspiration - flickr. I frequently browse the pictures to see what people are doing for displays. Tagging helps on that site and I recently realized that I have not tagged my pics very well.

Hope you will use this topic on webjunction for more ideas and that you'll post again. Welcome!

Here's our latest display called Royal Reading. The display consists of two paper crowns (under a $1.00 each), a poster castle backdrop and lots of books, fiction and non-fiction about kings and queens. I could have added fiction titles with king or queen but had enough based on real royalty to fill the display.

Maggie,
Neat as always! Thanks for sharing and for fixing the former posts. Glad to see you back. You always have such great ideas!
Carol