 Welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar where we cover a variety of topics of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are right now and the recordings are then posted to our website and I will show you at the end of today's show where those recordings are so you can watch them later. Encompass Live is actually, this is the beginning, this month is the beginning of the 10th year of Encompass Live. Wow, yeah, when I figured that out I was a little stunned myself. So we have a lot of archives out there. We do have everything that we've ever posted that we've ever had on the show. Going back to the first show which was in January, 2009. 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From here at the Nebraska Library Commission, any programs or services or things that we offer to libraries, we have a lot of sessions on. We also bring in, we have Nebraska Library Commission staff that do presentations, but we also bring guest speakers from across the state and across the country to talk about what they're doing in their libraries or ideas they have or things that are going on. And that's what we have this morning. To my left here is Denise Harders, Denise, who is the director of the Central Plains Library System, which for those of you watching Cornet in Nebraska, here in Nebraska, we have four regional library systems in the four different areas of the state. And they are kind of our person on the ground, local consultant, trainer, contact before the Library Commission now in the state. And Denise is in charge of the Central Plains, pretty much top to bottom. All the way through the middle. And I invited her to come on the show today to talk about dazzling displays. This is a session that you've done in libraries or four libraries sometimes? It's been requested a few times because it's a topic of interest. People feel like maybe they need to have a great artistic person on staff to do this. And I wanna assure you that's not the case. So that's why it gets requested is, what am I gonna do? What can I possibly do? So Denise is gonna give us some ideas and tips and tricks about how to do that. So I will just hand over to you to take it away. I don't want you to be able to use the mask or the keyboard. Alrighty. So dazzling, I might have pumped it up a little bit, but I think you'll enjoy the displays we have. First though, I would like to talk a little bit about why you would spend time on displays. I know that a lot of libraries, the librarians time is so limited. And so they worry about actually spending that time. But even if you have a small collection, it's difficult to browse if the books are all just sitting on the shelf with their spines out. So that's one of the major reasons you wanna do displays is so then you can highlight some of those books that you have. Library collections just have too many books for patrons to browse comfortably. And the stacks contain such a wide variety of topics and the way nonfiction in particular is arranged. Patrons don't always understand how that works. And not everybody's going to ask for help. They might wander through and be gone before you know it and before you even have a chance to offer to help. So displays are a great way of doing readers advisory without saying a word. You can feature books and displays in those smaller groups that helps patrons select what they might want to take home. And actually something as simple as if you have a whole cart full of books and you don't have time to shelve them, roll those out towards the circulation desk. People will pick off the cart that serves two purposes. It's a display and you don't have to shelve it. So it's a- You can sign it like you know recent popular titles. Right. Because somebody just recently collected it. And I haven't signed further in that is like that. So displaying your collection is really essential because then you get the maximum use out of your materials. People don't know what you're buying. They don't anticipate that you're only gonna buy the best sellers and you don't. So sometimes older items need an opportunity to shine and displays are a great way to do it. So what should be displayed? Okay, that's always a question that comes up. Remember the three cues. First, you have quality. Patrons, especially children, will take whatever's on display. School librarians know that. If you line books up on the top of the shelves and a class comes in to check out, it's gone for- You're sticking to see the graph. Clear those shelves off. So you wanna make sure that you're offering material and that is good quality. Spend time to find well-reviewed or award-winning titles. But you don't wanna select only new books because there actually should be a new books display someplace in your library so people can see what's coming in. Covers matter. Select books with a jacket or a color printed cover because classics, let's say Treasure Island, the newer copy with a color printed cover will circulate time after time after time when the old plain blue cover will sit on the shelf forever. So patrons trust us to steer them towards engaging materials. So remember that, not just anything will do. All right, the second cue is quick. Quick means quick for staff to prepare and restock. If you have time and are really creative and artistic, make it as elaborate as you want it to be. But if your time's limited, use that limited time to select your material because that's what is important about a display. Quick also means quick for patrons. If we prepare carefully considered displays, patrons become used to it. Your regulars will come in and they'll walk to the displays every time they're in the library. And think about how your patrons will interact with your display. If you have a locked case and you have books inside the locked case, then they're not going to ask to borrow them because they're gonna think, oh, it's just for looks. Trish, I've not allowed to touch those. Yeah, don't take those out of there. So it's important if you have a locked case, that's a great opportunity to offer your patrons a place to put out there, just their collections that they have at home. Like if somebody has a fantastic salt and pepper shaker collection or a model airplane collection or whatever your patrons enjoy, be sure and give them the opportunity and use the locked case that way. Now you'll wanna keep your displays visible. Don't always hide them clear in the back corner of the room. It's okay to put a display back there, but that shouldn't be your only display. It's not like the grocery store where they put the milk in the back so you have to walk all the way through the store and pick things up. It doesn't work the same with library displays. You can have more than one display. Oh, certainly. Oh, yes. Different topics for different genres, whatever. In different lengths of time, you can have a quick one on a certain day and then a month long one somewhere else. All right, the third Q is quantity. You have to decide how many titles to display and that is totally based on the space that you have. Don't try and jam too many on a little table. You think, oh, I found all these great books on this theme. Don't jam them together because then it gets overwhelming again. Just put a few out, restock it regularly. That's what's important. Make sure that you don't let it get picked over so there's only one or two things there because then they won't even stop. You need to have backups to fill in when people do grab these and check them out. Right, yeah. That's why you need a little bit of lead time when you're planning your displays because you do want to gather up the materials so you can just, then you'll have them in the back or under the desk with a note on them so you know which display they go to. Be quick and easy. And it's a good idea to tabulate circulation statistics for the displays. Statistics really validate the time that you spend doing this activity and it's not that complicated. You start out with the number of books that are on the display and you know how many you have in your stack under the desk. So if you get there and those are all gone, to add that number. And then when you're ready to take the display down, if there's any books left on it, you just subtract it and then you know how many books have gone out. Easy way to see how effective your display was in that particular topic. Right, and this is the one we were just talking about. It's a simple printed sign that says someone else just read this book. It's a small table. It's close to the SERP desk. Check items in. Of course, select the ones that are interesting covers. Maybe a different topic. Make sure and put your new books back on your new book shelf and then other books can go here. At the end of the day, clear it off, put them on the shelving cart. On the next day, you have a whole bunch more to check in because you've cleaned out your book drop and you'll be ready to go with this display again. It's one of the easiest ones and it saves work all the way around. So that's one place for a display is right near the SERP desk. Also, a lot of the library stacks have slap walls. You can put displays on those. You don't have to just only put a book or two up there. You can put signs and slogans. The book track is a great idea. Once again, you can wheel it any place. All of these locations that are listed here are a terrific place to put in a display. How do you do hanging from the ceiling? Well, maybe I'm too old. I remember the old macrame tables, the last table that comes down from the ceiling. It'd be great if it was a macrame table, you could put craft books on it. It'd be terrific. Alrighty, so you do all this work and you get a bunch of props and you put out your books and they clear it the first day. Now what? Now what do I do? So it's important to design displays that last. It's a good idea to use books that do not already have holds. Of course, because if they have holds, they need to be on the hold shelf, but to not allow holds on things that are listed as being on the display in your circulation system. You could set up a temporary shorter lending period simply because then when it comes back, it can go back onto the display for someone else to look at. If you have a display plan, a good display plan will have stuff all over the library. If you have a plan where different displays can go, but make sure you put them up front so you can see them. Big display furniture is expensive and it's really not necessary, those special tables and the ones that stack you don't need all of that. It's easy if you have a small item like those cubes that you can buy in the like Lowe's or Menards, those little cubes that can sit on a regular table, sign holders for an eight and a half by 11 sheet that you can print out of your computer. Fabric is so easy. Tablecloths, plastic ones even, or sheets, those are, that's a big piece of fabric for not a lot of money. So you just need a small investment. And anything to make it interesting, have you ever walked through the Dollar General? Oh my gosh, they have tons of display things in there. And it's all a dollar, it's my favorite thing. So just be aware, it's a mindset. You think about it as you go along and remember to focus your displays on ensuring that patrons who have come in for any reason, maybe they didn't come in to check out a book for themselves. They brought a child to story time or they needed to make a quick photocopy or they wanted to jump on their computer and check their email real fast for an answer they're waiting for. Make sure you focus your displays so that they get caught. That way they'll say, oh gosh, this is clever and they'll stop and look. So it's, those are ways that displays can really help you and the one thing you do have to do is have that stash of books in the back. That's highly important to make sure. Now there's bulletin boards that you can keep up all year long. If you have a big empty wall, like a lot of schools do, I've seen this one in schools more than anywhere else, but you pretend like your wall is a window. You put up some window balances on a curtain rod, then you use sheet protectors for each of the window panes and then you can change out what's in them. And then student work or covers of book jacket, and it looks like a window pane, but it's ever changing. And or another big wall thing is if you can find a giant map or if you have a big bulletin board and you can, now I know that you can get a really big map on Amazon, it ranges from 10 to $25 on how big it is. But if you put that on a board that's just inside the library, students can have a little pin to mark the setting of the books, where the books that they're reading. And that way. Well, interactive. Yeah, they feel like, oh yeah, I'm putting this book in the book drop, but I wanna put my pin in the map. You can post a random question each week. Another interactive thing, students like to put their answers on sticky notes. You buy sticky notes, you get the little ones, the big ones, the in-between ones, all different colors. And you let the students answer their question and they enjoy looking at those. And of course you'll have some people who'll put something funny, somebody who'll put something serious, but they just enjoy looking at all the answers. It needs to be, of course, all age appropriate. But it's colorful. And then at the end of the week, they're all the stickies off, throw them in a dumpster and pull out another question. I see in some places, do this at a lot of universities for whatever reason, whiteboards. Oh, and then they write it with a whiteboard, they have it on an easel or something with a question and then put markers out there. And then it may just erase it for the next question. Yeah, no money spent. It's easy. And it can be up any time. You can start with a large tree. I like that tree idea, yeah. And then you have leaves cut out of all different, of course, all different varieties of leaves. The maple leaves, they own leaves, all of them are fun to shape some colors. Let them write a name for the book they read and stick the leaf on the tree or in the basket that's under the tree or wherever the blowing in the wind close to the tree. So it gets decorative and the kids, once again, it's interactive. It displays for any time of the year. You don't have to relate it to a holiday or a season. You can put up a big sign that says people you ought to know. You cannot stock it with biographies. Biographies, I remember shelving biographies, but there were never very many to shelve. Not enough of them get read, yeah. Yeah, the people in the news that are in the news this week, their biographies get read, but there are so many great biographies in both children and adult areas. You wouldn't have to restrict it to one or the other. Another idea that's kind of fun is novels that have a person's name in the title of the book, so it's mixed up with people that you know, they're not real people, but it would be a fun book to read. Another, once again, put up, use your die cups and cut out the letters. Have I got a story for you? Then you can pair fiction and nonfiction books that are about the same event, like the Titanic. There's realistic books about the Titanic, but there's fiction books about that event as well. And of course, there's even a DVD of the movie. So then you just decide which event you're going to go for. And then did you like the movie, read the book or read the book before you see the movie? Right, that's a good one too. Staff favorites, it never ceases to amaze me because I always wonder who cares what I read. But staff favorites, some people, original, stop there first. And it needs to be personal. If you can, I mean, with the digital cameras and the photocopy machines we have now, you could take everybody's picture and have them hand write a little note about why this book, why they really like this book so well and use it as a bookmark in that book. But staff favorites is one that could be up all the time. And this one I just recently saw, back to the book and you include pictures. I mean, this is one where you'd have to think about it ahead of time. Books that have pictures of a person's back on the cover. It's so funny, people are facing away, they're looking into the distance. There's all kinds of books that's the back of the dress, but it's really, it would be a funny one to put out. It's kind of thinking, if somebody obviously realized there's a lot of the same kind of picture people are using on book covers, it keeps coming up as a theme. It does. So that's something else you could do. What other kind of themes could you put up with this? You wouldn't even think that are related is just this is what the picture is on the front. So almost every time. Yeah, anything you can find a whole bunch of books on something like pictures, books with flowers on them. The book might not have, all the different books are gonna have totally different topics actually, but they all have flowers. Or the titles, maybe the same word. Right. Because I can't tell you how many books have come out that it's the girl, the girl on the train, the girls and the train and whatever. So there will be other trends like that. So it's kind of fun to watch them and to put them up and think of a cute slogan to put with them. People enjoy clever. They like to see it and humor. They don't always think that humor is something that their librarian's going to display, but I think we need to let them know that yes indeed, we are fun people. Books to read before you die. There are tons of best books list. My Pinterest page has a bunch of them. It says best book lists and it's full of them. And there's always new ones that they, every year someone comes out and says, oh, you have to read this book before you die. Yeah. So that's one that can be used all year long and long-term book displays. Do save staff time. Now I wouldn't suggest this be your only book display, those long-term ones, because you want to make sure things are changing. It's just like your website or your Facebook page. You don't want it to be the same all the time. So that's true in your library as well. If people walk in your library and nothing looks like it has ever moved, that's not a good thing. You don't want it to be static. So then, of course, there's tons of displays related to the month. And I don't need to tell you January, there's slogans, there's about self-improvement and healthy cookbooks and money makeovers. And it's the month that you organize everything. Starting new. Do your closets, everything. So just grab a slogan off this list and then, of course, this PowerPoint will be with the display. So then you can just pull off a slogan and grab your books and you're ready to go. February, pink. Everything's gonna be pink or red. People like craft things. So if you can throw those in. What are the books from the bottom shelves? Because nobody looks down there. It's really inconvenient. And before I wore contacts for so many years that it didn't bother me. But then it got to the point where I needed trifold goals. So then I had to go to classes and I'm telling you, unless I'm standing on my head, I can't see the titles. So yes, the books from the bottom shelf, that's one that you can do just before you consider weeding. Because that way, things that people are interested in or that catch their attention, they'll check it out and then it won't be in the weeding pile, right? So young adult books, they have such funny topics sometimes. Anti-romance. But yeah, you can put up a display, not your mama's romance and cut the hearts up or make them out of black paper. So there's lots of things you can do. So it doesn't really have to be all pink, but... And then, you know, I mean, it's in Black History Month obviously you probably would not do that display in pink. No, no, probably not. But yeah, it's important to look at the national things that are going on. Yeah, and there's actually websites. There's one, I should probably just find out that posted on Facebook, but the day, whatever this did the day or month of things. Oh, I have that. All of these things, yeah. So you can look up, what is the, you know, the... What happened on this day? Yeah, like, you know, Black History Month or Women's History Month or whatever and what happened on these days, you can focus on some of those things in your displays. Yes, you can look up ahead of time and see, well, what do I need to look on for June? Right. Yeah, that's a good way to do. Now, I was gonna show you a couple. This one I thought was humorous and that was one of those that I liked and they just picked books that had winner scenes and I just think it's important to let them know that we're real people too and when you look at that, it really would not be a hard display to put together. You have a couple of round circles, of course, the black spots for the mouth, the triangle for the nose. There's nothing there. Cut out those snowflakes. Right, and you can buy the snowflakes if you have to. But there's nothing there. You do not have to be an artist to do that display. March, of course, you've got Women's History Month. That's another one where the biographies fill in. Right, in March. And, you know, everybody's got a shelf of those chicken soup for the soul thing. Yes, there's so many. And so those are great to display on quick reads. It's National Quilting Month, so you can get little pieces of fabric, little squares. Of course, most of us have some fabric at home that we can cut up and put up a display piece by piece and then get out your quilting books and put them out for people to see. Another one that could go all year long is An Author of the Week. Now, and yeah, you could pick Patterson or Nicholas Sparks, you can do that, but it might be interesting to pick somebody else. Make sure they have a few books under their belt because otherwise you're out of display material in a hurry. Kind of like the books in the lower shelf authors that you've maybe never heard of. That you missed, yeah. So those are, that's one that you could run all year. If you need a long-term one and none of the others interested you, that's a great one to try. April would be a good one for like humor because it's April Fool's Day. April Fool's Day, yeah. Do as someone's ever display related to that. Well, and you've got the out there too, I just wanna say it's about halfway through here. If anybody out there has any ideas of displays you've done too, friends, go ahead and type them into the question section. You can share your ideas of anything you've done too. Yeah, that'd be great. May is easy. It's all about mothers and motherhood and flowers. Like you said before, you could pick any number of books that have flowers on the cover. And then National Home Improvement Month. All those home repair books come out. Because it's getting warm enough and nice enough to do that. To do a few things. So, this is one that I like. It's a slogan that I saw on a brochure one time. And then it starts showing up as displays. Well-behaved women seldom make history. Yes, that is true. Something else going on in March is March Madness. Oh yes, basketball. And this is so easy. Get in the game, read. There's nothing. There's a basketball net. There's printouts of basketballs that have been cut out and laid on this tablecloth. And then you get out the team books, the players biographies, the how to play basketball type books. All of those can go on for March Madness. June, there are lots of things happening in June. Of course, Father's Day is there. It is audio book month. If you have any audio books, that's a great display to throw out there because so people know that you have them. Flag Day is in June, so the red, white, and blue. And that can continue into July. Into July, so you don't have to change it out then. And speaking of July, then of course, everybody thinks about paperbacks. And you can even display the paperbacks that are on your friend's book sales and not B1s that you check out because we really don't want them to take the library books to the beach. That's not really it. They come back with sand and it's not good. But you can say drop 50 cents in, take two books away you go. By July, kids are getting bored. So anything you can do that would interest the old children from third through eighth grade would be good and give parents a break, let them know what they might find interesting. You never think about snow in August, but you could put up a display. You're getting one reading to me. And this is one I saw just the other day, the potty training books. Now they go out pretty regularly on their own, but children have to be potty trained before they can start preschool in most preschools. So come August, it's crunch time. So you can come up with a little potty chair and do a tasteful display of those potty training books. So that's an interesting thing that some of these displays could be not just fun thing but educational. There may be some people that don't realize that that's something that they need to do or something that's coming up that they need to be paying attention to. That could be a display that this is happening next month. And I assuming earlier could have been like tax preparation. Right, April. You could do that in March. Right, you do it. And that's something to think ahead so that they can do it right. So cooks and crooks, any of those mysteries, there's several authors that do mysteries with recipes. So I thought cooks and crooks was an interesting title and so easy. You go to the dollar store and you get some recipe boxes and some three by five cards that are decorated. There are three by three cards in there. And it's fun to just put a few things in with your display but it doesn't have to cost a fortune. You know, school, September, we all think of school in autumn. Talk like a pirate day. Yeah, talk like a pirate day is gaining in popularity. It is. A lot of people know about it. It's September 19th. Every year. Every year. And there are so many books now in the children's area that feature pirates. And you can even dig out the adult. Cause they're, you know, they're talking about bad movies, stories of real pirates. Real pirates. Male and female. I mean, there's more stories coming out all the time. Yeah. And it's a topic that a lot of people find interesting. So that's a fun one. Just another one. Of course, October, everybody thinks about Halloween. So you, but I didn't know it was national pizza month. That's interesting. It is. And so you could look for books with pizza in the title. Sometimes I recommend like January is national soup month. I recommend that if you wanted to, you could have a soup, a chili competition or just a soup competition where library patrons could come in and taste the soups and choose their favorite. You could do that with pizza, you know, order a few pizzas in, call all your team advisory board members, have them come in and serve pizza to anybody who comes in the library on a particular day, advertise it. Who knows what your circulation will be. There's a pirate one. Books to treasure. So you could put, put your pirate books out with that too, if you liked. Now, this is one I've kind of liked over time. I've been, I've seen it where your, the pants, it says these will scare your pants off. And they're blue jeans and there's enough paper stuffed in them that they'll stand up. And the other one that is really funny, and I don't have a picture of it, but your table, if it has legs, you can put striped socks on them and then witch-looking shoes. Oh, like from Wizard of Oz. Yeah, so it's the witch legs. Yeah. So I think those are fun. Lots of fun to be had at Halloween time. We're finishing up the months, you know, of course, Thanksgiving gets lost in the chaos of Christmas, but there are some really nice Thanksgiving stories. You can... Genealogy kind of links to that, because you're getting along with your family. That's a family, yeah. Right. And so you can really feature that section of your library. Of course, you have your regulars that use the genealogy department, but there's probably a lot of people out there that don't know what you have there. So then in December, holiday stories, a homemade Christmas, all about Santa. Of course, Pearl Harbor kind of gets lost in there, but you have tons of people. I know my dad reads so many books about the Second World War. Yeah. And so if you get those out, they will circulate. I like the holiday stories for all different, because there's so many different holidays. Right. In December, Christmas, and Hanukkah, and Glanza. And it's... Right. And you want to make sure that it's an inclusive type of display. So that's a good way to make sure that you have books on all different topics too. Now, this is one that I really kind of like. It's kind of, you gather up all your tear-jerkers, you know, stories that are gonna make people cry. Whether it's a book or a DVD, and then you get out your Kleenex box, put a sign on it that says, read it and make it a big display, you know, of all the tear-jerkers. I love that one. So now, and here's the fact that you don't have to be super artistic. If I said to you, you need to make a penguin and stick it in the snow and bury your head in a good book, well, you might not think about this. Look at it. It's just like a big circle on most. It's just a circle, put out some feeds. Some little feet, the poles, and it's quilt batting on the bottom of it that you buy at the traffic store to make snow. Stick your head down in there. Then get out all the penguin books. Think of all the books that are in most libraries that are both fiction and non-fiction, but in the kids' department, there's tons of stories that have penguins in them. It's a great display, easy to do, and can last more than one month because you can start it in December. And leave it through February. Oh, there's your Valentine's display. Just gather up those red-covered books. And a lot of those will be your older titles because they don't have jackets on them, a lot of them. But if you have some empty shelves, it's a great way to do a display. I've seen people do similar displays with flag colors. Oh, to make it look like a flag on a shelving unit that's empty. I've seen some people do build, like for wintertime, white covers to build a snowman. See, make it look like the two circles with a snowman. And then black ones on top of that to the top of the hats. Just can get creative with just the colors. And I don't know if you have a thing here about the, I don't remember the title, but it was, the cover was blue. I think I might have that one in here. That's a funny one that, what's an ongoing joke, if it is, you know. If you've ever worked in a library? They say, I'm looking for this book. I don't remember the title or author or anything, but I know the cover was blue or green. And you had it over there. So you just put up a display of all your blue-covered books and put that sign. I don't remember, did you make a sign that says it? I don't remember the title, but the cover was blue. And that's the theme of your displays, just books. All books that are blue. They'll be in all different topics. It doesn't matter. And then it doesn't matter. It's a great one. Color. It's funny. Color displays are fun. They really are. And this is one you talked about earlier. Have you read a good movie lately? Oh, I like that. You know, books to movies. This could even be the start of a book club. So that people can read the book and then watch. You could start out with things that are already on DVD so that you have something to watch right away. But so you read the book and then you'll watch the movie. It's a great book club idea. And it's just a great display too, to remind people. I just put up on my Pinterest board and I believe on the website from the CPLS books that will be movies in this coming year, right? So that way you can get busy and read. You can get ahead of it. April is poetry month. And once again, a plan where it's poetry, not a hard one to do. Those leaves are not difficult. You just grab all your poetry books. And that I think is even actually on a rolling blackboard like what you see in a school. Yeah. And then there's a table underneath it or a little book display. The one book for one Nebraska book this year is a poetry book. It is. I saw that. So that is totally something you could link into the one book one Nebraska. I think that's what you're doing. Oh, and remember, that's in April. So be sure and reserve your book club sets for April. Do that right away. Okay, famous series are something girls, girls, it's generally little girls. I know little boys read the last on the prairie too. But if you put up a display like this and even the bottom of the shelf looks like the back of the wagon. I mean, now that one, I gotta say take some creativity. To make the prairie scooter there. Yeah. That does take interest in some, yeah. Right. So that's gonna take some time. That one I would wanna leave up for quite a while simply because it's gonna take you some time to put it together. Not to find the books, but to actually do that type of display. But it's still fun to do once in a while. This is a great one. Go to Goodwill. Get an old suitcase without wheels. Find a map and put inside the cover. You know, just inside the suitcase. You could put in there books about time travelers. Oh. You could put. Not just traditional travel books. Yeah. You could put actual travel books in there like full doors and all of those travel books. Or you can put books in there where traveling is part of the plot. So that there's all different kinds of things that you could do with that. But I love the old suitcase. Yeah. I think everybody needs to have one of those in their back. So just looking up, can I want to make sure I got the title right for anyone? We're talking about the one book, one Nebraska choice for 2018. The title is Nebraska Presence and Anthology of Poetry. And it is edited by Greg Kuznicki and Mary Stillwell. So, and we are gonna have book club kids just kind of on that side here. The book club kids gonna be available through the library commissioning through all the systems. That's what I was gonna say. Who wants to borrow them. The books are on their way. She's picking herself today. Yeah. And so if you want to, if you have that book club set for April, be sure and let us know so we can get you down on our list. Now, see, this is another one of those. It's sitting on a little stool right out in front of the SERP desk. And it says, bet you can't read just one. Now you see those books stacked back there? Those are books in a series. Oh, okay. So you have the whole series there. And so you bet you can't read just one. You're gonna want to read the second and third and fourth. Yeah. Can't read just one. So I thought that one was really fun. I'm not sure. I don't know where you'd find a yellow trash bag, but that's what you really need something like that. Yeah. So, but I just thought that idea was fun. You can just do that on a bulletin board too. Yeah. This is one for schools. What to display material that has come in over the summer. Since you've been, yeah, since you've been gone or the books missed you or something like that, but you can display those for the first two or three weeks of school. And the kids will know that if you have readers that go through a lot of books, they'll really appreciate knowing what's new, what they missed. Here's one of those that is on a book truck and it happens in September, the last week of September is Band Books Week. There's generally a little bit of a theme, but it essentially is books that have been challenged. So those and Captain Underpants books are challenged all the time. So that's an easy one that everybody has a few of anyway. But there's a whole list of Band Books that you could put on that cart. And the chain link is plastic. Probably came from maybe Halloween display stuff, maybe. But once again, I've checked the dollar store. You know, leaf through a good book. That's a great one for a fall. You could put it up in September. You leave it up through months. Yeah, through almost, put the recto over you. And part of November even before you put up your holiday books. Those leaves, you don't have to go ahead and cut all those out. If you go to like a craft store, like Hobby Lobby. Bags of those fake artificial leaves. Right, that are really great colors. And you just snip each one off and put it up on their ear display. A couple of dollars, you're going to have plenty of leaves. And it'll save you a ton of time. If you want to feature nonfiction, this is so simple. It's just a very simple display that that way whoever is reading it knows that those are all nonfiction books. And that's something that children don't always understand. So if you were in a children's area or a school, might be such a thing as you'd want to feature books that kind of read like a story, but they're actually true. This is one of my favorites because this is again, one of those interactive ones. If you, for the whole month ahead of when you want to do this display, everybody that checks out a book, you have them trace their hand. And you can either cut them out or have one of your volunteers do it or the person who draws around their own hand could do it. But then the next month, then you could put all their hands up. They know that I contributed to that display. They were part of it. Yeah. Something that's important that we don't always think of. Take pictures of, well, I put really good displays, but take pictures of any of your displays. And then you file them according to the holiday or the month or the theme, whatever works best for you. And then the old displays can either spark new ideas. And sometimes this has happened. It's like the whole blue book thing. They'll remember that they saw a book on one of your displays. They'll say, well, I don't remember who wrote it. It was about winter. So then you can go back and pull out those pictures and see if you actually maybe caught it. You'll put it on there, yeah. And also it's a good, I think too, a good reminder of what you did in the previous year, the previous month, that you either, and it can go both ways. I wanna remember that this is gonna be an annual thing we do. Or I wanna remember what we did. So I do something different. And then maybe like three years from now, go back to that one that we did before that month. So you have kind of like a stash of ideas. They've already created ideas and the letters. Because so many times you have to cut out letters that go with it or use the die cap machine to do that. You can gather up those letters and put them in a sandwich bag and file them with the pictures. Then at least you do have that slogan if you wanna use it again. But like I say, I use things like that to make sure I don't repeat. Because I forget what I've done. Exactly. So if you're looking for sources for display ideas, there's lots of different ways that you can gather those. We've talked about some here. I do send out a monthly email from the system. There's a minimum of 10 display ideas or activity ideas that I email out to our system. If you're not in Central Plains Library System, it also gets posted to our website every month. And what happens is at the end of January, I am posting March ideas. Yeah, time to prepare. So you can gather up those books and have a stash wherever you need them to be. So another thing that you can do is I do have a Pinterest for displays for libraries and I add to it all the time. If you go to our website, which is the, we have a commission website. So it's libraries.ne.gov and slash CPLS. You can go to our website. There's a link, follow me on Pinterest on the right-hand side of the page. And if you do Pinterest, then you just click follow when you get there. And that way you can see all of the ideas that I'm drawing from. There it is. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, that was library thing. The one below it is Pinterest. Yeah, there it is. So there's, I know that a lot of people hesitate to get involved in Pinterest or to even start looking at it because you can't lose yourself and spend hours and hours looking at it. But if you have a specific thing that you want and you say that you're gonna follow the displays for libraries, when I post something on my page, it will come up in your feed because you've followed me. And then you can see it if you wanna put it in your display list, well, then you can do that. And this is the website that you were talking about. I think so, yeah. Today's the history. And there's the website. And like to say the PowerPoint will be up on the website with the video, but. So that's the thing to look at to see what's coming up to do display on. They do post, I believe, like I said, I follow their Facebook page. And so each day they'll say today is so-and-so day. This happened today. So that's not really useful for what we're talking about today, but yeah, looking at it and saying, well, what's happening next month? Yeah. Right, and they break it down by category, like military things that happened on a particular day or political things. So they haven't all divided up. So you can see what might be interesting to your patrons. So another way to get extra mileage out of your displays is take that picture for your file, but also post that picture on your web page. Sure, because it doesn't have to just be an in-person interaction to your users. Right, they don't have to come in the library to see it. They can see it on your Facebook page or your web page. So another type of book that a lot of times gets ignored because it checks out so much anyway. Any of you that have graphic novels and kids that are reading them and adults. Oh, there's lots of adults now. So they are incredibly popular. So of course, it's going to take a lot to keep that display full. But it is something that if your graphic novels are kind of in the back of a corner shelf, it might be a good idea to bring it forward. And we talked about this. Color themes are so much fun. If you look for something, you can look for any kind of book that has a bright green cover. And then it's all topics. But the sign says it's not easy being green. And if you happen to have a little stuffed animal of Kermit the Frog, you set him up there with the sign and all these green books, it's really fun. Or you can do the reading of the green if it happened to be March. Or you can do red books, red hot reads, more blue books, books with the blues. Or like Christa said, I don't remember the title. Let the cover be. But I know it was blue. Major news events. Of course, we have the Olympics coming up. And that is in my list of displays for February that I sent out at the end of December. People watch sports that they never have seen before. Oh, yeah, I do. So I do, too. I do for the Olympics. Yeah, you watch the Olympics. So get out the. I have no idea how many of them are played until I watch the show. So you see, what are they doing? Yeah, curling. Now that's gotta be one of those that none of us knew anything about. But the Olympics brought it to. And now everybody knows, yeah. We all know what it is. I say curling. The other thing, we've had horrible hurricanes if there's been an earthquake somewhere in the world or good things like the release of a film or a celebrity in the news. Take advantage of those things. And if you have books about them, this is a case where you don't actually have to have a whole stash of books. If you put a little sign on the circulation desk off to the side so people can step up and page their material, you can just put a little sign there and say and feature that book. Whatever you have to say to feature that book. And then if it gets checked out and takes the sign down, and it's over. But what that means is somebody that came in for three books, left with four. So that's a good thing. And that celebrity that makes me think local celebrities too, if there's local books about something local. Right. And a lot of the libraries do carry local authors. That's a great one. And I didn't even say anything about authors' birthdays. Oh yeah. There's nothing you focus on here. And that's something else that's easy to look for. If you have a ton of books by a particular author, put them into Google, you'll find their birthday. When it comes time for their birthday, you don't even have to pull the books off the shelf. Just move them apart a little bit and put that 8 1⁄2 by 11 shelf saying, so this is so-and-so's birthday. So-and-so's birthday, it will bring, if it looks different, people will walk towards it. They'll catch their idea. So-and if you see a catchy slogan, like the one about well-behaved women starting to want some of them make history, write it down. Put it somewhere where you think it makes sense in your files to use for a future display. Let's say reader's advisory is so important, but a lot of people don't feel comfortable with that. And this is what we were talking about before. Last week we were talking about this is, and I think it's in the description, this is what we're talking about with passive programming. This is one of the things where you're not actually interacting with people who might be shy or just don't know that they want to talk to you, but- Right. They don't realize they're being programmed to. Right, they don't know that by looking at that display, they have just participated in a program. So that is one great way to make sure that people are finding what they're interested in. And it really is the easiest way to promote your collection and it's going to increase your circulation. Absolutely, yes. If you go from zero displays to one or two. That's the huge thing about this is not just putting together some fun thing that makes it look interesting library, but things we'll check out, whether it's the books, the DVDs, whatever you have, the audio books, you're going to see an increase in them. And when you are, we talked about the books from the bottom shelf. It's important to give the books that have been purchased every opportunity. I mean, something has to be on the bottom shelf. It might be really great stuff. Just have us be where it ended up. So make sure that it gets plenty of opportunity to be checked out. That's why we buy material is so that the public can use it. So now I have listed the references that I used so that you have the opportunity to look at those if you'd like. And so you'll be able to see those on there. Yeah, don't worry about trying to write all this down. You'll have access to this presentation with the recording afterwards. Right. So, and that's where you find me. Cool. Most days. Awesome. All right. Thank you, Dees. Nobody's said anything during the show. They're all sticking around watching intently after taking notes. Anybody have any comments or questions before we wrap up for today? We're a little after 11, but that's fine. We started a little after 10. This is really great. I wish I had something to make me which I worked in the library again because we did displays where I went to the university years ago. And it was always fun every month or whenever to figure out what was coming up knew that we needed to focus on. And I think this isn't just when we talked a lot about public libraries in schools but universities do this as well. Oh, yes. They have their books they need to focus on and their own displays, all types of libraries need to make sure people know what you have. It's just a lot of time selecting them. We do. We look at reviews. We watch for a lot of work and do things that sell well at a bookstore. We spend a lot of time. So you want to make sure they get used. All right. Just some thanks for all the great ideas, comments coming in. So that's great. Oh, here's a good question. Is there a way we can share our display ideas, i.e. pictures with other libraries? Well, that would be Pinterest or Facebook. Yeah, if you post them. And a lot of times I feature book displays that have come to me in picture form. Like I had a library do. They had a mannequin, the top half of a mannequin. And they made the skirt out of fancy book covers that had fancy dresses on them. And it was near prom time. Or you could do it with wedding dresses with white things on the cover and say yes to the dress So I got one of my libraries in my system had done that. And then it was in the middle of a round display. And then the books were displayed all the way around it. And the covers were photocopied and just cut off and made into the skirt of this dress. It was a really clever display. So I put that in my newsletter because we and all the systems have newsletters that go out at least once a month. And mine's every other month. But yeah, that's it. And we're glad to share this. There's lots of you can create a Pinterest board like it like Denise did. And then that's yours that is and make what make it be a creative Pinterest account for the library and see what have different things. This is our library displays. And then I would follow you so that that would come into mind. And then or in Facebook, you can create an albums on different topics when your albums to be all of our library displays. There's also ways of sharing them. Also, if you are in one of our systems always looking for content for their newsletters right or to post on our web page. Yeah, so send them any ideas. Someone did just post. There's a, there is a website. Thank you, Diane. Librarian Design Share is a great place to share ideas. Now look at the URL is librariandesignshare.org. Just all those three words smushed together. I'm gonna show you that. Inspiration for the library. Yeah, let's go over here. Keep out of this. Get to here. Yeah. So, yeah, those things. I'll take a read. Oh, no, I guess spell it right first. Don't take too fast. My library. Or, yeah. It's hard. Fingers are faster than my brain. Keyboards off kilter. Yeah. There we go. Inspiration for library creatives. That's by type. So it's a loading something, too. So, yeah, different ideas here for doing design in your libraries. So you can put, you can share them there. Yeah, that's great. Is that, and then there is, you were talking about your Pinterest board, which I'm going here. This is where our regional library systems have their websites, Centra Plains. As you said, over here on the right, we scrolled down just a bit. So I have one up from Martin Luther King yesterday. I put that up ahead of time. Oh, there's a display for that, yeah. And then here's the Pinterest board for Centra Plains. Best book lists, book club recommendations, book folding trailers, displays for libraries. Does that say 600 and something then? Or 804. 804 and 100. Yeah. I'm looking out the time. I want to make sure that there's something that people can, I guess, I can't see it all until I sign up. That's fine. But if you have to create your own board, create your own Pinterest account, yeah. There we go. There's a different thing, I think so. Logos, bookmark your library, all sorts of ideas here on this website, too. So there's lots of places you can share or where you can get ideas from out there. All right, any other ideas or comments or thoughts for today's topic? All right, nobody's typing anything in desperately right now. I think we'll officially wrap it up for today. Thank you very much, Mrs. Stegman. I think that's a really cool idea. And I even get ideas for books that I might want to look up reading throughout some of these topics. The show has been recorded and we put on our Encompass Live website. You can find it off of our Library Commission site under Education and Training, our Encompass Live webcasts. 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