March Madness in Books!

ROUND 1

MPL March Madness in Books! is a tournament-styled book battle for all ages at the Marshall Public Library. MPL has selected 32 top checked out books from different areas of the library. These titles have been randomly paired off in a bracket battle where your votes will advance them to the next round. Voting ballots are available at the library, at www.marshallpl.org, and on the MPL Facebook page. A bulletin board will track the voting progress. You do not need to have read every book to vote. Feel free to look up summaries or reviews and decide which book will progress to the next round.  Ballots will be tallied at the end of each week and the winning tiles will be advanced to the next round. Then a new ballot will be available. Voting begins February 24. Make sure to get your votes in each week and help us choose the #1 book for MPL March Madness in Books! The winning book will be announced April 3^rd.

 I found so many different versions of this idea but I loved the templates found over at www.literaryhoots.com. So that is what I used too. For the other graphics I googled March Madness in images. I added "In Books!" The other graphic is a basketball hoop and I added the orange book.

I will update with more pictures through the month.

ROUND 2

 I added the QR code square that takes patrons to the Facebook page.

ROUND 3

Update: The Winner!

Fashionable Reads

This was a fun book display featuring books with clothing in the title. It was surprising how many books went up on this display. Just to name a few titles:

• The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag 
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
• The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
• The Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park
• The Red Shirt Kids by Bryce Clark
• If the Shoe Fits by Sarah Mlynowski
• The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills

I totally forgot to take a picture of this display. But This shows what was up on the sides.

I just googled paper dolls, printed a few, and simply cut out their clothing. 

Blind Date with a Book (5th annual)

This is the 5th year we have done this themed display for February. So many patrons look forward to this one. I think they like the mystery of not knowing what book they are checking out. This year I decided to change it up a bit. (link to one of our past blind book displays).

First, books are completely wrapped (years past had book covers so you could still look through them) so no flipping through the pages this time. However, each book is labeled so you know what genre you are getting. Some are also labeled teen and children's book.

 I also covered the barcode instead of cutting out holes (this was simply so wrapping the books would not take up so much time). I have typed all barcodes and taped them on the back. When a patron checks it out we have to type in the number instead of scanning.

I also added a "rate your date" bookmark that patrons can fill out to let us know what they thought of their book/date. I will then post these on the side of the display.

The idea is to cover the sides of the display with these bookmarks.

Close up of a bookmark. 

Fun display for all ages. I try to make sure it has several different types of books are available for adults, teens and children.