May Displays

There are so many wonderful things to celebrate in May!  The OPL decided to honor our fallen soldiers with a Memorial Day display:

Did you know that May is National Hamburger Month?!

Our final display was a reminder to Date your Mate <3 <3

Kelly display put together by Jeannette!!

Kelly was out of the library for two weeks on vacation.  While gone, she tasked me with updating her display.  This is what I did:

December Displays

Happy Holidays!  The OPL displays were varied this month.  Our Owen room display was themed Chill Out and Read:

It wouldn't be December without a food themed display, so our small case was themed Treat Yourself to a Good Book.

Our final big display was themed Seasons Readings

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! 

Kelly's November Displays 2!

Happy almost-Thanksgiving!  Kelly put together a fun display to celebrate how thankful we are for our amazing patrons!

November Kelly Displays

Kelly broke out her gangsta' side with her most recent display

 

We were also lucky enough to have the Oberlin College football team create this awesome display for us:

Finally, not really display related, but it's the first snow of the season.  The view of our library garden is just breathtaking!!

National Coming Out Day Display!

Because October 11, is National Coming Out Day, Kelly put together an amazing display supporting our LGBT patrons!

Adult October Displays

I spent a good chunk of my September working on pictures and themes for the October displays.  Is anyone else SO excited for Halloween?  What will you be dressing as? 

The small display used the theme from Teen Read week a few years ago:  It Came From the Library!!!  Figuring out how to cut out goo was the hardest part:

 

 

 The display back by our Owen room has a Trick or Treat theme:

And finally our display by the computers encourages patrons to not be Scared to read

Kelly's October Displays

Kelly set up some awesome displays to kick off the month of October.  Firstly she did a display on Milt Hinton.  Milt has a huge background from here in Oberlin, and since the Oberlin College Art Museum is displaying pictures of this famous Jazz musician, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate his life as well!

Next Kelly decided to break the librarian code of conduct and spill the beans about our secret double life!

Another ARRRRRRR'some display

National Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming up this Friday, September 19!  To celebrate, Kelly put together this awesome display!!!

Children's Display

Amanda, our children's librarian, let me create the children's display after the summer reading program ended.  I went with a "Fall into Reading" theme. 

September Displays

We, here at the Oberlin Public Library, are very lucky to have the opportunity to display art work by local artist Bernadett Ginestet-Levine.  The pictures I took DO NOT do justice to the beauty of this artwork.  Come in to see this beautiful artwork for yourself!

Kelly create a fun display to celebrate Dahl Day!  So many great Roland Dahl books available.  What is your favorite?

Kelly's Displays

Kelly, our head of circ, is in charge of the free standing displays here at the library.  She really goes out of her way to make them something special.  A few weeks ago she created this display to highlight the fact that OPL would be at the Lorain County Fair.

There were books about cows, pigs, horses, farms, and so much more!!  Just when I thought her displays couldn't get any more amazing, I came in to work and found this masterpiece:

She's set the standard for her displays impossibly high.  I don't know how Kelly's going to top herself with the next display, but I'm excited to find out!!

August Young Adult Display

Have you read a good movie lately?

August 2014 Displays

The first display case, for August, held a marvelous piece of art called (Un)natural Order by local artist Karen Lyle Reynolds.

Ms. Reynolds left an Art Companion Guide to go along with her picture.

For the small display, we're celebrating August as National Picnic Month!  It was too long to get the display in one picture so here's the top of the display

And the bottom of the long display

For our Owen Room display, we are celebrating National Vesuvius Day (August 24):

Please note the four foot Volcano in the background that I printed out, colored and taped together.  It is my masterpiece!

Old vs. New Displays

I was tasked with keeping the displays up to date at the Oberlin Public Library.  This blog will be my journey as a library display updater!

A couple of things to get out of the way:

Because Oberlin is a small public library, we try to only use non-fiction books in our display.  We don't have enough copies of fiction books to sacrifice some to a display.

There are 3 display cases that need updating.  One display I kept basically the same, so we'll skip that one for this first blog

Now, onto the displays themselves!  The display back by the Owen room looked like this originally:

I took all of the summer reading stuff from this display and added it to the display I wasn't really updating.  So one display is focused on summer reading, while the other displays are focused on summer books.

The above display I changed to "Books are Fun in the Sun!" theme

The large display over by the computers looked like this originally:

I updated it to the "Swimmingly good summer reads" theme:

While actually putting the displays together I severly underestimated the amount of work required.  Since this was my first try at displays it was pretty simple.  Next month I'll try for a more complicated "back to school" theme.  Any suggestions, comments, idea's are always welcome.