January 2016!

New year, new hobbies...

This one hadn't been up for 10 minutes, and someone took the knitting book.  YAY!

 January is National Tea Month, so of course....TEA POTS.

 Birds on a wire

December 2015

Just a small Christmas display...

In the children's area, we made a paper chain tree and had the volunteers make snowflakes (because I am really not good at making snowflakes).  Some of our children colored pictures for us to hang.

Found a bookmark in a book...Teens are awesome!

The display case had men's fashion, complete with Christmas ties.  I tried several knots, but ended up folding some because in addition to not being good at making snowflakes, I am apparently not good at tying ties.

November 2015

Did you know that there was a "Chicken Soup for the Soul Day?"  Me, neither.  Obviously a commercial for the book series, it's November 12th.

One of our teen volunteers made some paper airplanes for this display.
There was also a teen "Plane Science" program
(at which there were 12 people, none teens.  *sigh*)
The display wasn't up for 10 minutes before one of the books was taken.

  and two days later...THIS!

Fall display

We had a blast making this tree!  We used three large lawn and leaf bags, did some twisting, and added tissue paper leaves.  The "blowing" leaves are our patrons who got new cards this month. The hope is to fill the entire wall with new patrons.

I was very surprised at the number of people who agreed to let me take their pictures...not just children, adults, too!

It is absolutely possible to look manly with a library card.

October Stuff

It's Library Card Sign up Month.  We put together this gift basket for a drawing.

This Banned Book Week display was kinda cool...a description of why the books was banned was on top, and when you lifted the flap, it showed you the cover of the book.  There were about 20 of them scattered around the library.

  

  

  

Check out a book with and orange or black cover
and get your reading card stamped!

Jackie Collins passed away this month.
We featured her books at one of the checkout stations.

We celebrated the birthday of Stephen King
by featuring his audiobooks.

And in the children's area, we all got Goosebumps.  R. L. Stine has a movie coming out this week, so I posted all kinds of facts about him and his books.

The display case is full of cake decorating paraphernalia.
These items circulated better than I thought they would.

We started the "You've Been Boo'd!" baskets .  We send goodies to two branches, who in turn, send goodies to two branches, etc.... We decorated Jello, pudding, and mandarin orange cups and made tissue/sucker ghosts.  We drew pumpkin faces on small oranges.
I don't think it's been done like this before... I hope our recipients enjoy them!

Also, Miss Rita is a cat.

.

September displays

Sports!  Sports!  Sports!

August Displays

Back to school!

Ann Rule passed away in August...the 364.1's will never be the same.

On chalk paper!  

Adult Coloring Pages.....

...done by TEENS.

Once the teen turns in their color page, they get to choose a book from my stash of free books and diaries.  I am surprised at how much they love the blank books.

July 2015 Displays

 It's difficult to tell, but the butterflies are 3-D...
It's only day #2, and I've already had to replenish the display!

We featured E-books in the display case.  

Each item has a sticker that reads, "Also available as an E-book."
The plan is to overcrowd the display case so people get the idea
that there are lots to choose from online.

Book Faces