Ready Made Book Displays

Since merchandising and marketing play integral roles in successful librarianship, this title is a valuable resource. Author and librarian Henkel provides a collection of 55 theme-based displays for the entire year. She explains the principles behind effective displays and presents a wide variety of ready-made book displays that can be easily replicated. Each of the display ideas includes a prop idea list, a related Dewey subject list, media tie-ins, and an annotated and reproducible book list. It's everything the busy librarian needs to create appealing, successful book displays contained in one guidebook providing catchy titles, materials and props lists, reproducible hand-outs, and photographs to guide librarians in quickly assembling successful displays. These display ideas can be utilized in several different venues: in-shelf, point-of-checkout, display case, and others, and can be targeted to coincide with events, holidays, and celebrations, as well as for general book promotion. Features include: listing of displays; original materials and documents, including a "Which Shakespeare Play?" quiz and a "Book Display Log" for tracking displays; photographs of each display accompany the descriptions; an index of authors and titles notes which provide listed entries and which are fully annotated; a "Display Months" appendix connects displays with time of year, holidays, events, and celebrations; a wide variety of themes beyond simple genres, including displays united by setting, title words, and even cover art; the philosophy of displays as well as the critical connection between displays and readers' advisory--From publisher description.