Love to Read

By Erika Brysiewicz

Erika from Suriname International School in South America has shared these displays for Valentines day, the photographs of the students reading in the first display is a lovely idea. Thank you for sharing!

Book Lovers

By Rose Humphreys

Thank you to Rose, librarian at the lovely Somerset College in South Africa, for this fabulous idea for Valentines Day. Here are her comments:

"Instead of focusing on romantic love, (which some of the students don't like as they don't have anyone special), I asked the staff to tell me what their favourite reads were/are, or what they're loving right now. I created A5 posters for them and put them up on the noticeboard, along with a Book Lovers Rule and Rock sign - that's the first 2 photos. Unfortunately our noticeboard's glass reflects too much so I tried to take photos of the 2 halves of the board with the glass open. It isn't wonderful, but gives the idea.
Inside the library I created a display of as many of the books mentioned by the staff as we have, with the two posters in the next photos.
Some of the books have been checked out, quite a few have been looked at.
The best part was the enthusiastic response from staff, and the building of collaboration".

He loves me, he loves me not ...

By Elaine Pearson

A nice easy display to promote some love stories! 

Loving our library

By Valerie Dewhurst

Valerie selected a variety of romantically themed books to chose from for this Valentine's day display - the bags were bought from Scholastic and raffled off to support a charity.

Chinese New Year

By Sharon Spong

It's never to early to start thinking about displays. I put ideas down on my calendar as they occur to me. 2016 is the year of the monkey and is on Monday February 8th. We have some fabulous books about China that I would like to display ... watch this space! Sharon's display could inspire some ideas! Thank you for sharing Sharon.

It must be love

By Sharon Spong

Some good ideas for Valentine's day, or simply to promote some good or new love stories from your collection. Thanks for sharing your inspiration Sharon!

Fall in love with a good book ...

By Stephanie Taylor

Thanks to Stephanie for sharing her delightful Valentine's display!

Valentine's Day

By Fran Karmann

Fran has Valentine's Day all sewn up this year! Her readers are in for a treat with these five fabulous displays. Thanks for sharing them Fran! 

Blind Date with a Book

By Jennifer Cauley

Here is Jennifer's second display for Valentine's Day. It's a great idea to use the 'lucky dip' idea as a blind date and I love the chalkboard effect - beautifully done! Thanks for sharing Jennifer.

Here are her comments:

'We tried this last year and it was really popular so it's back again. A lot of libraries come up with clever "dating profiles" for the books but I didn't have time for that (mostly because the chalkboard thing took forever). I wanted it to be easy for us to add a variety of books as other blind dates were checked out, so we just had an blank "frame" that we'd add a clever description in as we went along.'

Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

By Jill Hames

Welcome to the Blog Jill, hope you enjoyed looking around.

Jill has generously shared two of her displays, this one is a creative way of approaching a very serious topic and works very well. Here are her comments: 

'I wanted to keep the display lighthearted, even though it is a serious topic. I used lavender paper to wrap YA books. All the books have some form of teenage relationship. On the covers, we wrote the book's barcode to facilitate circulation. We also wrote something to do with either a positive relationship or a sign of abuse. For example, "Healthy Relationship = Encouraging each other." Included in the display are bookmarks with Internet resources to help people in abusive relationships. The bookmarks and display sign have pink roses, again, trying to keep things light so that people will look at the content'.

For more details about Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month check out the website here:  Healthy Relationships

Valentines Day

By Fran Karmann

Valentines Day is fast approaching - Fran has already decorated her library to promote books from her collection. Thanks for sharing Fran, your library looks very romantic!

I love reading because ...

By Josephine Crimp

I love this simple, but very effective display by Josephine. She has used this display as a Valentine's Day / Book Week combination. Every student who came into the library was asked to write in a heart why they love reading. Josephine finds that interactive displays like his are really popular. 

I expect you got some very interesting comments Josephine!

Days of the Year

Have a look at this website for some really fun ideas - and February happens to be 'Library Lovers Month'
Days in February

Chinese New Year: The Year of the Dragon

By Andrea Garcia
Andrea Garcia juggles working at the Aldama Elementary School in Los Angeles and at the public library - and she still finds time to do some amazing displays to promote the books from the collections.
She has worked in school libraries for 13 years and in the public library for seven years.

Here are her comments:

'I usually link to a week-long celebration which includes contests open to the whole school. These displays include a music playlist on my ipod to add to the experience. I love adding lights, too. I always say, since the kids don't have the opportunity to go to Disneyland, I try to create my own magic, with no budget, as best I can'. 

The idea to link music and lighting to the displays is great and would certainly grab a lot more attention. Thanks for sharing your displays Andrea. 

Charles Dickens - 200 Today! (7th February 2012)

By Kateri Wilson
Thanks Kateri for sending us details of your display for Charles Dickens 200th Birthday.
Here are the details: 'Charles Dickens is 200 on the 7th of Feb so I thought I’d share my display with you. Dickens, the cake and hat were found online and blown up on the photocopier, the illustrations of his characters were by Chris Riddle and were from poster given out in with The Guardian newspaper but you can get a pdf to print out from here: Charles Dickens Wallchart'

Black History Month

By Krystal Morgan
Krystal does all the displays at the Victorvilly City Library in Victorville, and she has been kind enough to share some with us.

This one is for Black History Month:
'We are not makers of history - we are made by history'
Martin Luther King

'Black History Month is a month set aside to learn, honor, and celebrate the achievements of black men and women throughout history. Since its inception, Black History Month has always been celebrated in February'. (About.com)

Valentines: Sweet Reads

By Lisa Stofac
For this lovely display Lisa has made a giant Sweethearts candy box and put hearts with book titles all over the board.
A 'Lovehearts' tube of sweets could be used as an alternative.