Book Journals

We had a summer reading activity to make book journals. We took composition notebooks and covered them with scrap-booking paper using Mod Podge. The notebooks came in a few different sizes. The most popular was the 5X7.

Pictures of some of the journals made at the library program.

PBS Great American Read

After getting several questions about the Great American Read. This list contains 100 fantastic books. I decided we needed that to be the next display at the Marshall Public Library. More information on PBS Great American Read can be found at https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/. Artwork is from the PBS website.

#GreatReadPBS

Only placing a few books on the display at a time.

Each book has a green paper inside it that is the list that can be printed from the PBS website. https://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/gar-phase-2/assets/TGAR_BookChecklist_2018.pdf

Staff Picks

For years we have had a section on our website for staff picks AKA staff recommendations. After moving some books to different shelves and gaining a place for another display we decided that it would be fun to display what our librarians recommend.

Side panel with quotes from librarians. Each book has a bookmark inside noting who recommended it.

Close up of one of the quotes.

Display started with 20 books on it and after 1 week I needed to restock a few times. So it is good to have a list with several books on it to refer to. List will soon be available on the library's webpage.

Libraries ROCK!

The summer reading program theme this year is Libraries Rock! So I thought it would be perfect to list some of the reasons why. This bulletin board is located in our lobby. Clip-art is from www.cslpreads.org.

Close up of reasons why.

Books that say "I Do"

June book display is books with weddings.

Top of book display

A co-worker let me borrow one of her vintage wedding toppers that she used as a centerpiece at her reception.

A book with a wedding in it is also one of the 50/50 Book Quest categories.

Audiobooks "Have you heard?"

I placed a plastic holder containing handouts for RB Digital on the side of the bulletinboard.

Facebook video

Each week we are posting a video to our libraries Facebook page giving patrons ideas of what to read for their 50/50 Book Quest (reading 50 books in 50 weeks). This week we are highlighting Star Wars books. Here is the link to the video https://www.facebook.com/marshallpl/videos/10156329561729935/