Three more....

Horror movies...they keep flying off the shelves.

2016 Summer Olympics sports
After just two days, they've had to be replenished twice.

















Bye, kiddos!  Take one of these with you!  (And they did!)

July displays

 These flew off the shelves like crazy!

Our staff members are great models!

 These moved, but not like I thought they would.

National BBQ Month is always a hit.

This one was done with the cooperation of the FWPD.  Lots of comments on the picture, and the books that checked out were children's picture book fiction.

It's a Dummies world.  A few of these circulated, but they didn't go as well as I thought they would.  This kind of display should be out in the open...unlocked.

Movies that were dead on the shelf (no circ in six months) flew off this display.  I had to replace it seven times throughout the month.  YAY!  This tells me that the way we shelve things is not good for marketing the collection.

 "Take a Walk in Their Shoes" was the name of this display.  It was very divers, and the books moved slowly.  Everyone loved my co-worker's shoes, though.

 If it had the word "summer" in the title, it went on display.  We replaced items daily.

As always, there is a display promoting our year-long reading program.  

So many displays!

A co-worker did this music display.
She asked my favorite song, and after much agonizing to choose ONLY ONE, I went with Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are."

With so much violence lately, there needed to be PEACE.

 Our library was a PokeStop.  At this point, only a couple of books and movies are left.

 I took a picture of almost all staff members with their Pokemon.

We had a fundraiser for the local food bank.  In addition to a display, we had a "Fancy Schmancy Slider Fundraiser" with the staff, and in the heat of July, we had a sundae bar fundraiser.  I think in total, we raised $104!

 We had a teen art program and participants got to be creative, so I hung their art in the teen area.

 We even got to keep the picture the artist did during the program.

Texas...home, sweet home.

Displays - March 2016

I think it's very important to include all of 

the staff in library marketing and displays.
Fortunately, the staff at my library enjoys having their
pictures taken...and nothing is off limits!

 A coworker lent me a small quilt for this National Quilt Month display.

February 2016

Accompanying sign said, "Need a romance?  See Ms. Corey!"

"Find technology books at Dewey # 000-001 or ask Ethan!"

"Find craft books starting at Dewey # 745 or ask Miss Rita!

January Story Time

I got to do story time!

Our theme was birds and we read FOUR books (and the children even sat still for all of them!) and our craft was Cheerio rings for the birds,  They made one for our bushes, and one to hang up at home.  They were told to remember which one was theirs and to check for it when they came back to the library.  It was a BLAST!

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.