GIFSL*: 29. Bookcase displays

I've shown you our foyer bookcase before (it's in lots of photos on this blog too), and thought I'd show you a couple of its more recent versions.

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ANZAC Day

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This, as you can see, involved larger books, one per space.  It wasn't so much about lending the books as promoting the spirit of ANZAC Day.  We had a lovely noticeboard display too, and someone who looks a LOT like me forgot to photograph it.  Maybe next year.  And we had ANZAC Day bookmarks.

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After ANZAC Day, our next version was about promoting reading.  The ongoing library challenge for promoting reading is, of course, that you mostly only have one copy of a book, so once you've done a GREAT selling job on a title...you have to start again (whereas a bookshop can sell another and another and another...).  Selling the 'sizzle' of reading via a theme or idea is a work-around for this challenge.  We do it with holiday borrowing (as blogged before) and, in this promotion, with the umbrella term "Thrillers".  I'll blog more about this in the next week (can't give you all the bonbons at once, when a year represents over 200 blog entries....!) but for now, here's the bookcase.

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Thrillers!

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Apart from the hard-to-browse bottom shelves, the others combine a face-out cover, and and some other choices of 'thrillers'.

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This bookcase cost about $100 on special from Target, we assembled it ourselves, and it earns its keep every day.  Without a large budget (I wish!) it's good to have something like this that's smart, adaptable and not expensive, a 'blank canvas' for lots of different ideas in the foyer.  Greeting everyone who enters the library, there to catch the eye of everyone as they leave.

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Yup, more about Thrillers soon...

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Cheers, Ruth

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*GIFSL: Good Ideas For School Libraries

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