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.