Sink your teeth into an audio book

We have several "scary" but not necessarily Halloween audio books that I wanted to display for October. The theme is Sink Your Teeth into an Audio book (with vampires for Halloween).

Side view showing the vampires peeking out from behind a row of CDs. 

I added labels on a few of the shelves so that it was obvious what was appropriate for younger patrons.

The vampires are wearing headphones!

I was asked how I did the discs. I took the discs from discarded books on CD and tied them together with yarn. Then I hung them over the sides of the display unit. I did use a small amount of tape behind a few of them just so they would not swing if bumped.

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Banned Books Week (part 2)

The book display has been up for the month, but now that it is officially banned books week I have added a little challenge to the display. Can you guess the book in the jar? This year I only did 3 books. See last year's contest here.

Fun contest that patrons can enter. Winner will win a library book bag.

Challenge was place right next to the book display.

 First I took 3 books that are on the banned/challenged books lists and randomly copied 6-8 pages front and back. I then took these copies and cut them up. (individually so I could keep the books separate). I then gathered the pieces and stuffed them into a jar.  Can you name the books in the jars?

Jar #1

Jar #2

Jar #3
←   Click "read more" to see the answers.

Banned Books Week

All graphics used this year came from the ALA website (link). I loved their "Words Have Power" theme. I added the "Break Free...READ" to make our display different from other libraries.

Only graphic I altered by adding a broken chain to symbolized breaking free. The fortune teller has several banned book stats and info is also from the ALA site.

We pulled several books from all over the library to place on display.

Front view

Side of display. Chains are plastic from the Halloween supplies. Close ups pictured below.

Close up of side (top).

Close up of side (middle). Information about Challenged books, Intellectual Freedom, and Censorship (from ALA).

Last close up of side (bottom).

Kindness Like Confetti

Our city celebrates kindness week in September every year. This year the celebration takes place in Old Town right by the library. We have several things planned for the kick-off celebration but to get ready we have our bulletin board. I wanted to share suggestions with patrons of an act of service they could do.

Box of confetti has suggestions of different acts of service that anyone can do.

Close up of the confetti border. Background is colored paper cut in random shapes and then covered with a glitter coated tissue paper.

Collections Display: Maylin's Thimbles

Upstairs in the nonfiction area we have a ongoing display that features different collections that people in our community own. This month we highlighted my mother's thimble collection.

It was so fun for me to be able to help mom fill the 2 display cases with her collection.

My co-worker Jen wrote up little descriptions about some of the thimbles.

We even hung some of her thimble Christmas ornaments.

Highlighting the thimbles from Alaska.

Second display case.

Patrons viewing the collection.

Readers' Brunch

For the end of our summer reading program for adults we had a readers' brunch. In order to receive an invitation participants had to read 2,000 pages and checked in 3 times over the summer. In other words they completed the program. We had an enjoyable morning with juice, muffins, bagels, fruit and books! We had door prizes, free books and did the grand prize drawing.

For brunch we had muffins, bagels, fruit and juice.

Tables were decorated with books and MPL pens.

Everyone got to take home a book from the center of the tables.

Door prizes

Grand prize: Eclipse Package (chips & salsa, pizza coupon, soda, cups, t-shirts, and eclipse glasses, and book bag)

Cool down with a good book

Bulletin board for a hot summer