So I knew we were going to do Dinosaur Teams for summer reading. But the trick was to figure out how to showcase what teams had read what amount. Mostly this is because we don’t have an bulletin board or big display area. But I think we finally figured out what we are going to…
The summer reading program started today. And now that things are a little less crazy, I can hopefully show you some of what we have been doing lately. I made a dinosaur out of cardboard! And it is sitting on top of our picture book shelves. So I started out with this template. And this…
I decided to do a teen display about quick or short reads. You know, the teen books that are less than (or close to) 200 pages or compilations of short stories. But it took me a little while to come up with a title. Then I remembered I loved hobbits, which are shorter than the…
Did I mention how much I love the creativity of my coworkers? One of them did this great window display in our teen area recently. Basically it shows some of the books that people “liked” from the teen shelves. I like how it plays on the fact that online you “like” a lot of things…
Once again I am excited to share what one of my coworkers has come up with. This is the kids’ area window display that was put up in March. (And there will be an addition that will be added for April….which I will show later). It is a giant rainbow…which all the kids have LOVED.…
My coworker put up this fun display in our Teen Area. “I Mustache U 2 Check Out These Books!” Then the books on the display had mustaches put on them. This is what the whole book display looks like. Then we had these little mustache extras that were put up so that teens could take…
I had to share what my coworkers came up with for the Teen Valentine’s Day window display. If you recall I had put together a “Love Stinks” book display. So, my coworker thought that we needed to at least show our support of love somewhere in the teen area. So this is what she came up…
At my library we don’t have big bulletin boards to “dress up” the children’s section for the various holidays. So, we are “dressing up” the big, giant windows instead. My coworker put this part together for me. The first half says, “Read a book…” and the second part says, “Write a Valentine.” Then it has…
I wanted to change up the teen display in our library so that it had a Valentine’s theme. But really I didn’t want it to be the Valentine’s theme of gushy, romance or what not. So I decided to make a “LOVE STINKS” sign and put up books where love stinks (sometimes). As in the…
At the South Jordan Library we are in the middle of the KUED Reading Marathon. So to help to encourage kids to participate in the reading marathon (aka getting them to come to our desk to talk to them about it) we are doing an Alphabet Walk. What is that you might ask? Well it…