Library Elves

Elves have been caught on camera. For the next few weeks pictures of where they have been spotted will be posted on the bulletin board at the bottom of the stairs. They do not stay in that location, but they do leave a secret word behind (example: Prancer). When a patron comes to the circulation desk and tells us the word of the day they receive a candy cane. Activity will run through January 3 (most of the kids Christmas break).

Find this location (Friendship Bench) for the hidden word of the day.

Bulletin board in our entryway

Behind the circulation desk!

Is that my poinsettia?

The places they have visited so far get added to the board.

Strange holidays

Did you know there is a "holiday" for everyday of the year? I put together this fun little table top display for National Chocolate Candy Day (December 28) and we are putting books with the theme "chocolate in fiction" on it for the rest of the month.

See other daily holiday ideas here http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/
or here https://nationaldaycalendar.com/

Holiday books

Snow is falling.....
           Books are calling.

Shelves filled with December holiday books.

Sides wrapped in shiny snowflake wrapping paper.

Honoring our Vets

We wanted to interview local veterans for Veteran's day on our weekly Facebook video, but they were camera shy. However they were very happy to share with us some of their favorite books. So we put together this display with the books they recommended. I tried to keep 5-10 books on the display during the month of November.

Idaho Authors

Book display with Idaho Authors.This was also one of the 50/50 Book Quest categories.

Book Sale

The Friends of the Marshall Public Library put together 2 book sales each year. One in the spring and one in the fall. Items in the sale are donated items that we did not add to our collection and older items that we have weeded from our collection. The money they raise goes right back into the library for new shelves, chairs, ipads, computers, and so much more. We are very grateful for all that the friend do for us at MPL. Most of the books are in the community room but this photo was taken in the lobby. As you can see this year was busy.

Day or Date in the title

One of our 50/50 book quest categories is a book with a day or date in the title. Library patrons were having a hard time finding items for this category so that became our next display.

Read Know Grow with Dewey

I wanted something to highlight nonfiction at our library. There are 2 books from each NF area. This display was put up just as fall was hitting. The tree began with green leaves and then about 2 weeks later when our leaves outside started to change I changed them to orange too.

Banned books 2018

Celebrating banned books week. However we kept the display up all month.

Kindness week 2018

Our city celebrated Kind week in September every year. This year for our bulletin board we used famous kindness quotes and emojs. Then every day of the week an activity was added.

Close up of some of the quotes.

More great quotes.

Activity table next to the bulletin board.

Close up of the table.

Coloring pages. (Be kind to yourself).

Draw an act of kindness.

Kindness calendar.

Letters to Heroes.

visiting author

Local author share her experience of publishing her first book. She shared a few passages and then answered a few questions. Followed up by signing books. It was a great evening.  

Reading a section from her book.

Signing books

I asked Helen to pose with William.

Reader's Brunch Summer Reading Program for adults

With the theme Libraries Rock we decorated the tables using books, CDs, and records.

Patrons who read 2,000 pages or more were invited to the readers brunch. We had 35 patrons attend the brunch this year. That is more then double from last year.

Fruit, bagels, and muffins!

Bouquet made by one of our librarians.

We gave time for them to eat and talk. Most conversations I heard were about books!

I gave everyone a sticky note to write down a book they enjoyed this summer. Then we posted them on the white board.

There were some really great suggestions.