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

Warm up your holidays with these Romance titles..

By Sherry Cortes
Light the fire and snuggle down with a good romance! That's the invitation from Sherry!
This is what she says:
'Hello from the United States! My name is Sherry Cortes, and I am the reference librarian at Savannah Technical College, a small technical school in Savannah, Georgia. We don’t have much room for displays, but I work with what we do have and try to make each month a different theme. This month is a romance for the holidays, with romance books—we had gotten in a shipment of Zane books which inspired the display, but those were checked out before I had a chance to even put them up, so I found other romance novels on our shelves.
It keeps things interesting here to have a little display, and there has definitely been an increase in book checkouts since I started doing this'.

Thanks for sharing this inviting display Sherry - have a wonderful Christmas!