Halloween

By Susan Kay

Sue needed a quick display to tide her over while preparing displays for her school's 75th reunion in November. This is pretty good for a quick display and will certainly draw the students' attention to the books - which is what it's all about! Thanks Sue and I hope the reunion goes really well.

Here are Sue's comments:

'I had bought this piece of fabric last year for next to nothing so that was my starting point. I pinned it up then added the net and a few black witches, pumpkins and boo signs. I had made the red back spider last year for a school assembly so that was dusted off and suspended from the ceiling. An old purple cloth was used on the display table and spooky books were collected from the shelves. That's it....done. Good enough to get me through the first couple of weeks of next term'.

eBooks

By Barbara Plum

Thanks for this display Barbara. It's a really good idea to promote an eBook collection by display, they can otherwise remain a 'hidden' collection for many students who still browse the shelves rather than search the catalogue. I like the way you have framed the book covers with an iPad.

Here are Barbara's own comments on her display:

'Over the past twelve months our library has been building a collection of e books for use by students and staff. To date loans have been less than impressive. So to promote this new resource I decided to mount a display featuring some of the titles we have and reminding the students of the steps they need to follow to borrow an e book.

Fingers crossed we may manage to spark some more interest in this new direction for libraries'.

Spring into a Good Book

 

By Elaine Pearson 

Spring is sprung, the grass is ris ..... this suspended host of golden daffodils gently wave in the breeze as the students wander by .....

                                    ...... hopefully they will stop and take out a book!

Clouds and daffodils from Google images clip-art, printed on card and hung from green stalks. Happy Spring Southern Hemisphere folks! To those up North - search for 'Autumn' or 'Fall' in the search box for some great ideas.

Back to the Books

By Stephanie Trzeciakiewicz

Welcome to a new school year all those in the Northern Hemisphere - hope it's a good one! 

Thanks to Stephanie for sharing her 'Back to School' display. It's great that she was able to recycle book covers used in previous displays. Here are her comments:

'Here is my Back to School display. I cut out giant letters that read Back to the Books and centered them on our HUGE bulletin board outside the library. I then surrounded the letters with different sized book covers. It has gotten a lot of attention when people stop to see which books they have read and which books they would like to read. Believe it or not, about 80 percent of the book covers were ones I had saved from past displays, and only had to print out some of our newer titles. Took a lot of staples, though!'

Missing Book Titles

By Barbara Plumb

Check out this fun interactive display from Barbara at  Trinity Catholic College, Lismore, Australia.

Here are her comments:

'I called the display "Missing Book Titles" and it has generated quite a deal of interest from students and staff.

After printing A3 sized colour posters of well known book covers I removed a word from the title and replaced it with a strip of velcro. I then printed out the missing words along with a selection of different words to keep the students guessing and attached a strip of velcro to the back of the words.
Some students like to see how fast they can arrange the titles correctly, some like to have a bit of fun and mix the titles up – "Breaking Dawn" and "Gone with the Wind" for instance, dawn and wind being the missing words!'
It has been a very successful interactive display, encouraging students to engage with each other, teachers and library staff'.