Mother's Day Book Display

Let's give it up for the greatest people in our lives, OUR MOMS! With Mother's Day around the corner, this is a great way to show our love for Moms and also showcase some great moms in literature. 

This was a somewhat difficult display to make because it's hard to keyword search for this. When you look for "Mother's Day Books", you get a lot about flowers and gardening, but that's not what I was looking for. So this is a bit of a shorter list of titles.

HERE's the list of titles!

Happy Mother's Day (a little early) to all the Mom's out there!

-Megan

Currently Reading: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner 

Gardening Display

I dropped off the face of the Earth for a little bit, sorry about that. It's been a rough week for me and was trying to get through that without having to worry about this. 

So let's get down to business. It's gardening season, so it's important to make these books easily accessible for patrons to find. We did this display a few weeks ago and the books flew off the display. 

 Here's the list of titles. Have a great week ya'll!

-Megan

Currently Reading: Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli

Grill Out & Barbecue Book Display

As the weather gets warmer, certain hobbies start to come out of hiding. This week, I'm posting display ideas that are perfect for warmer weather. This week: grilling!

My family loves to grill and my parents have no problem with grilling in the dead of winter. They usually shovel a path to the grill just to make sure they have access to it! Grilling is such an American past-time and I know some of my greatest summer memories are ones where I'm with friends eating food off the grill.

With this in mind, here are two great options for a poster to use for this display.

And HERE's the list of titles to use for the display! 

Happy eating friends!

-Megan

Currently reading: I'll Give You the Sun  by Jandy Nelson

Asian American & Pacific Islander Authors (AAPI) Book Display

Sometimes book displays aren't as popular as others. I try not to let this get to me, but for this one, it did.

At our library, if a book display features fiction titles, they tend to move more quickly. The last display I did before this one was all Irish fiction and the titles moved well. This display? I've barely had to restock it.

After the numerous attacks on AAPI people, I felt that this display was necessary in order to show our support for the community and share their work with our patrons. However, I wonder if there is some inherent racism in our patrons by the amount of times these titles were overlooked while on this display. Why do books with white authors get so much more like and publicity than those authors with non-white sounding names. It makes me so upset.

As someone who strives to read diversely, it hurts that others don't feel this is something that is necessary. However, this "setback" will not keep me from putting BIPOC authors on our displays. If anything, it makes me want to do it even more.

Share your thoughts with me in the comments. Do you notice this happening at your libraries as well?

Ok now onto some posters and a list for you dear reader! (I used the 3rd one for my display.)

And HERE is the list of titles! Those that are highlighted have more than one book (at my library at least). 

Stay positive and Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

-Megan

Novels in Verse & Poetry Book Display

Happy National Library Week and National Poetry Month!

Since I didn't post at all last week, I thought I would start off with a double post. Two posters and two lists for you all.

Poetry is something that is foreign to many people and may not be very popular in your library. I know when purchasing items if I see that it's "in verse" or a book of poetry, I lean away from purchasing it. However, it's important to have these novels for those who enjoy them. Also, poetry can bring out a more beautiful form interpretation and language.

So first, here is a poster for books in verse.

And here is a poster for National Poetry Month!

HERE is the list for Novels in verse; and HERE is the list of poetry books for the Poetry Month Display. 

Thank you to all the library workers out there doing amazing things. This week is for you!

-Megan

Currently Reading: Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

p.s. I decided to move to doing posts on Tuesday and Thursdays with the occasional Free Resource Friday.