Ready-Made Book Displays

Providing more than 50 fiction display descriptions, this book identifies themes for the entire year and includes titles for signage, annotated book lists, prop and material ideas, as well as photographs that show how to pull it all together.Proper library merchandising doesn't have to be prohibitively expensive, time-consuming, or constitute a huge headache. Ready-Made Book Displays explains the principles behind effective displays and presents a wide variety of ready-made book displays that can be easily replicated, 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. Each of the 55 fiction displays includes a prop idea list, a related Dewey subject list, media tie-ins, and an annotated and reproducible booklist. It's everything the busy librarian needs to create appealing, successful book displays—all contained in one handy guidebook.55 theme-based listing of displaysOriginal materials and documents include a "Which Shakespeare Play?" quiz and a handy Book Display Log for tracking displaysPhotographs of each display accompany the descriptionsAn index of authors and titles notes which provide listed entries and which are fully annotated"Display Months" appendix connects displays with time of year, holidays, events, and celebrations

Nancy M. Henkel, MLS, is managing librarian for the King County Library System, Renton, WA. Her published works include several articles about serving on book award committees.