HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY (Irish legends, leprechaun stories, Irish history, Irish travel books, Irish biographies), GREAT IRISH STORYTELLERS (noted authors, Irish biographies). Note the display is on end-of-stack slatwall shelving. Ooooooooh I love books! I like the feel of a real book and appreciate them still being available. I love books and am happy that there are people like you to help organize and maintain libraries. February 26th - TELL A FAIRY TALE DAY (besides fairy tales, include some biographies of Hans Christian Anderson or even Walt Disney), FAMOUS LOVERS (This can be fictional lovers or real people. Hello thanks for this list! Favorite Books from Childhood or Reread a Childhood Favorite, Books You Will Want to Read More Than Once. THIS YEAR I WILL LEARN HOW TO (fill the display with how-to book on hobbies, sports, cooking, all sorts of skills), READ IT WITH A BOX OF KLEENEX (a chance to feature weepers from the fiction collection), KICK OFF YOUR YEAR WITH A GREAT BOOK (pretty much an open topic for award-winning books or classics or favorites). You should go on a world tour teaching libraries how to display their wares. Its inclusion offers a mirror for a diverse population (especially in BC), and a window for those readers wishing to learn something new. This set contains all you need to SAVE TIME, show off your library's gorgeous books, and get your students reading!Save 20% when you buy the full-year bundle! I actually like dogs better than cats so I cant believe I missed it . This is a great Lens and very good idears. Add to Wishlist. Include books that celebrate America and patriotic themes. With 160+ students a day and lots of papers to grade, it's difficult to find the time to create displays and rotate titles. Linux (/ l i n k s / LEE-nuuks or / l n k s / LIN-uuks) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. This set of December Library Display Posters contains all you need to create eye-catching book displays for December holidays, including Christmas. I'm the queen of library book displays. I had to tell you that when I go to the library these days, I take a quick glance around to see any changes and think of you. It is essential to get maximum use out of the materials and to keep your patrons interested and returning again and again. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. Know of a celebration or event that is not on the list? Thanks again! :P. I ALWAYS check out the displays, book selections, looking for inspiration, so your work is not wasted. (LogOut/ So each month expect the children's library to undergo a magical transformation as we decorate display boards, bookcases, the circulation desk and even the walls! Love 'em, love 'em, love 'em! Looks cool. I am just obsessed with books and libraries lately. Don't forget medieval, Roman times, and other very early fiction. How to: Get a few discarded, worn out or damaged books. Check out this list of monthly events and celebrations to help with your program planning. Nifty! If you have any books on the topic youd recommend, I would love to order them for my library! 2) Use that PDF to click on the specific title you would like to find in the database. Thank you for sharing these great ideas! A friend found an article about a library displays make completely out of dusty books (my library's term for books that haven't been checked out in awhile). Pre-K - K; . Visit us at the Roseland Regional Library . The next month, it can say IF YOU LIKE ---, TRY THESE and fill in the blank with that month's author. And later in life I worked for a time in a used bookstore. ReDiscover.Libraries! Great Library Displays and How Effective They Are - BOOK RIOT Show more details. Grades. You'll want to come back each month for more ideas. Library Book Display Ideas - HubPages Hello Lindsey, If you are interested, you can check out my books at saffronpress[dot]com The Garden of Peace is set amidst the historical backdrop of Vaisakh. In Canada, at least, I am sure many librarians and their staff would benefit from your lens. EDREDONES EN EXHIBICIN!/ QUILTS ON DISPLAY! | Sonoma County Library Monthly Book Displays - LibGuides at Conrad N. Hilton Library Fabulous book display resource page! I found library work challenging and felt I made a difference in my community with literacy programs and internet connectivity (had to get lots of grants to do that). September is National Voter Registration Month | NASS I now have a much greater appreication for the creativity of our library staff in developing the clever displays they use! I love all your suggestions and I've made note of my favorites! Awesome lens. Thanks. 9 October - World Migratory . Hurrah for libraries and education! I love using daysoftheyear.com to find cool and different holidays by the month, year, or even day! Monthly Book Displays - Book Displays - LibGuides at Conrad N. Hilton Library Book Displays: Monthly Book Displays Book Displays Monthly themed displays of featured books from the CIA Library Collection. Browsers often overlook books on the bottom shelf, as they don't want to bother bending down. When I became a library director in Texas, I trained my staff to display books in the stacks, to feature books near the checkout area, and to keep our many display racks filled with fresh looking material. And Im adding in Human Rights Month under December good one! The theme of this year's National Library Week, April 3-9, is "Connect with Your Library.". Alternate slogans: AROUND THE WORLD IN A BOOK, LET'S TRAVEL, BOOKS TRANSPORT YOU TO FAR AWAY PLACES, NATIONAL QUILTING MONTH (books about quilting and patchwork projects) or PIECE BY PIECE. Here are 10 ideas to help you celebrate School Library Month and connect with students, educators and parents: 1. CHRISTMAS STORIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY (holiday stories for reading aloud, classics like The Christmas Carol, anthologies of Christmas stories and poems), CHRISTMAS DECORATING (making wreaths, lighting displays, decorating the tree, making ornaments, etc. They can be found here: http://www.limejuice.com.au/what-we-do/library-boo A great lens. I no longer work in a library, but I do enjoy the displays. If you've read my blog for awhile now, you probably know how much I LOVE lists! NATIONAL PIZZA MONTH - Display some pizza cookbooks, some Italian cookbooks and any fiction with pizza in the title, like Pete's a Pizza from the children's section. Shop 3 records for sale for album Themes for lovers 1 by Various on CDandLP in Vinyl and CD format Camp COVID Summer Learning: Our Black History Awakening Mural (The Frederick Douglass Edition) The Telling Room: SWARM! There's a certain cachet to a book that someone else has just read. I work with children and am responsible for displaying their book choices on a daily basis. Thanks a great big bunch for so much super information. Kirkus Reviews' 10 Fun Summer Books With Black Protagonists. Save 20% off individual prices and make your library the center of your school! Hello I love you lens. Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, etc. 4 October - World Animal Day. I love when people bookmark my blog posts . Thanks for an inspiring lens! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES - books on writing about your life or childhood, memoirs of famous people and ordinary people. Travel Back in Time with These Stories (put a variety of dates around the slogan; 1845, 1930, 1900, 1230, etc.) This is a treasure trove for librarians. Fill the display with authors similar to the featured author. Sometimes they will save cardboard book display dumps for you. Here are, BEACH READING (people often prefer paperbacks for beach reading, fill the display with light fiction), alternate title: READING FOR LAZY SUMMER DAYS, COOKING ON THE GRILL (celebrate National Grilling month by displaying cookbooks on grilling and BBQing), GREAT OUTDOOR SPACES or ENJOY OUTDOOR LIVING (show off books on deck and patio building, porches, swimming pools, fountains, landscaping, gazebos, child play areas, etc. The reader doesn't know what title they might be getting. You have a lot of great ideas here. Make an eye-catching display by featuring some partially burned books and a slogan like the one here. There are many non-fiction books available about Vaisakhi but it is often included in books about the faith identity. I made this small display around the time I was running my library lessons on misinformation and responsible researching. This time its not to promote books but to simply allow students to say nice things about their teachers. St. Patrick's Day is March 17th. October is a time set aside for celebrating, promoting, and appreciating the global diversity of our society. To get myself more organized I finally sat down and created a calendar filled with a years worth of display ideas. Feature shelf-sitters.) This short video is perfect for running on a local TV channel. Laraine Sims from Lake Country, B.C. "pride display at local library" by u/katrinaevening. I have been in sooooo many libraries (I should be charged rent). Displays for Schools, Classrooms & Libraries - Demco Capitalize on these (example: the Olympics, release of a major film). Printer-friendly version Calendar of Events & Celebrations January 30, 2020 By ALA Public Programs Office Listed below are events and celebrations to help with your program planning. This might be a good spot to display a sign like TODAY IN HISTORY with something fresh each day. National Library Week 2022 - EBSCO Information Services Then I run into the article on Admission-Essays.org about the most amazing libraries in the world and here we go, I am secretly dreaming about becoming a librarian. And do you use the upgraded service if its something like Canva? This one is also MARAVILLOSO! It's a great time to pull out all the time management books, home organizing and storage books for a display. Have a stack of titles nearby so you can easily refill the display. Set up a display called WINTER READS and fill it with books on skiing, skating, and any book that has winter or snow in the title. Monthly displays in the library. The children's display could be IT'S RHYMING TIME. Hi! Use your plexiglass sign stand to put your sign in and presto, instant display. Christine Larsen from South Australia on September 13, 2010: That's why I have such a painful muscle in my upper arm - lugging all my books around and reading every night in bed with my head propped up by same arm. National Game and Puzzle Week Nov. 18 -24th. WINTER GETAWAYS (travel books for tropical places), MAKING VALENTINES (Valentine craft books, card making books, calligraphy books, books of love poems), TRUE ROMANCE (biographies of Anthony/Cleopatra, Czar Nicholas/Alexandra, and other famous couples) alternate title - GREAT LOVE STORIES, LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND (this can be adult fiction with a romantic theme or it could be books on relationships and dating), VINTAGE ROMANCES (classic love stories, old favorite authors). You could also do a Decemberly display celebrating the author Ed Emberley. and of course Thank You for the great ideas. As always it is a delight to gather resources for the displays and enjoy watching children and teachers look into . Library displays have the ability to shout very loudly in a library without actually saying anything. The holidays give a natural batch of topics for displays, but keep in mind other holidays besides Christmas. MOTHERS ARE SPECIAL (for Mother's Day, feature books about mothers and motherhood), GROWING SPRING FLOWERS - (feature books about bulbs, flower gardening in general, growing azaleas), LOVE IS BLOOMING (have you noticed how many romance books have flowery covers? Austrailian School Library Association Book display increases fiction circulation by over 90% and non-fiction circulation by 25%. Dr. Seuss - Dr. Seuss's Birthday is March 2nd. Monthly Library Displays - A Celebration of Diversity by Patty Barfield | This newsletter was created with Smore, an online tool for creating beautiful newsletters for educators, nonprofits, businesses and more .