Marshall Madness 2020

It's that time of year again for Marshall Madness! This year to mix things up a bit we are doing a staff favorites edition. I asked library staff to nominate a favorite book and now we get to VOTE! Voting takes place at the library and online (using a Google form).

 

Each week titles with the most votes will move onto the next round. This will go on for 4 weeks and the winner will be announced at the end of the month. I will update this post with the winner announced. For past Marshall Madness displays click here.

Marshall Madness 2019

In years past for MPL Battle of the Books we had popular books "battle" for the winners spot with patrons voting through a bracket style tournament, but this year it's all about the authors in MPL's 2019 Marshall Madness: Authors Edition.

Starting February 25, the library will be hosting a tournament among authors that have been nominated by librarians. The authors have been fit into 4 teams; Classics, Nonfiction, Youth, and Series. Each week residents will cast their ballots for which authors should advance to the next round.  Each "team" will have an author that continues to the final four. Then, from there, our winning author will be voted to take the #1 spot for 2019 Marshall Madness: Authors Edition.

Bracket style tournament to keep track of winners moving up in each round

Don't know an author? Lift the flap to reveal a few of their titles.

Voting  has narrowed them down to top eight.

UPDATE: We have a winner!

2019 winning author is J. K. Rowling with team Series.

March Madness (year 2)

MPL March Madness: Battle of the Books!

MPL March Madness: The Battle of the Books has returned. Marshall Public Library will once again have a tournament-styled battle of the books. MPL has selected 32 of the top checked out books from 2017. These titles will randomly be paired off in a bracket battle were your votes will advance them to the next round. Voting ballots are available at the library or online at www.marshallpl.org or on the MPL Facebook page. A bulletin board at MPL will track the voting progress. Ballots will be tallied every week and the winning tiles will be advanced to the next round. Each Monday a new ballot will be available. Voting begins March 5. Make sure to get your votes in each week and help us choose the #1 book for MPL March Madness: The Battle of the Books! The winning book will be announced April 9.

I love the basketball hoop. We placed a loop of card stock behind it to make it pop out. I love the effect and the little extra character it add the the board.

One of our ballot boxes ready to go. (This locking box was purchased on Amazon).

First ballot

Choose 10 books to compete in the book battle. MPL will take the top 16 and randomly pair them off in a bracket battle were the votes will advance them to the next round.

 Video made for the MPL Facebook page

Who will the winner be???

UPDATE:
And the winner is.......

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!