Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step

Need ideas for library displays? Here is an effective tool for designing and creating unique visual statements for library spaces. It offers practical advice on utilizing everyday materials to create lively but economical presentations on all sorts of topics including authors, world cultures, traditions, natural habitats and book genres. Each of 46 featured displays includes a brief introduction to the subject; an explanation of the genesis of the idea; specifics regarding the information included and its source; step-by-step instructions for assembly; and ideas on how to customize the display to any available space. Various display elements including unique color combinations, interesting graphics, balance, emphasis and intended audience are also discussed. A "Month-by-Month Display Ideas" appendix contains 77 additional nifty display ideas. There is a very lengthy bibliography for further research and inspiration. The book is thoroughly indexed.

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Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step

Need ideas for library displays? Here is an effective tool for designing and creating unique visual statements for library spaces. It offers practical advice on utilizing everyday materials to create lively but economical presentations on all sorts of topics including authors, world cultures, traditions, natural habitats and book genres. Each of 46 featured displays includes a brief introduction to the subject; an explanation of the genesis of the idea; specifics regarding the information included and its source; step-by-step instructions for assembly; and ideas on how to customize the display to any available space. Various display elements including unique color combinations, interesting graphics, balance, emphasis and intended audience are also discussed. A "Month-by-Month Display Ideas" appendix contains 77 additional nifty display ideas. There is a very lengthy bibliography for further research and inspiration. The book is thoroughly indexed.

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Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step

Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step

by Susan P. Phillips
Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step

Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step

by Susan P. Phillips

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Need ideas for library displays? Here is an effective tool for designing and creating unique visual statements for library spaces. It offers practical advice on utilizing everyday materials to create lively but economical presentations on all sorts of topics including authors, world cultures, traditions, natural habitats and book genres. Each of 46 featured displays includes a brief introduction to the subject; an explanation of the genesis of the idea; specifics regarding the information included and its source; step-by-step instructions for assembly; and ideas on how to customize the display to any available space. Various display elements including unique color combinations, interesting graphics, balance, emphasis and intended audience are also discussed. A "Month-by-Month Display Ideas" appendix contains 77 additional nifty display ideas. There is a very lengthy bibliography for further research and inspiration. The book is thoroughly indexed.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476601823
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 03/21/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
File size: 5 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Susan P. Phillips is the former Lending Services Supervisor at the Cressman Library of Cedar Crest College. She lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Susan P. Phillips is the former Lending Services Supervisor at the Cressman Library of Cedar Crest College. She lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Getting Ready     

Authors
The Life and Times of Bram Stoker     
Michener at 100     
¨Not for Myself Alone¨: Celebrating Jewish-American Authors     
Lewis Carroll and Alice     

Pop Culture
All That Jazz     
Baseball as America     
From Page to Screen     
The Awesome 80s     
No Pun Intended     

Genres
Wild, Wild West     
Tales of Horror     
Hot Nights, Cool Reads     
Nine Lives or More: Cats in Literature     
Whodunit?     

Traditions
Celebrate the New Year!     
Santa Blue: The Legend Begins     
One Thousand Cranes     
Day of the Dead: Dia de los Muertos     

Patriotism
Sage of Monticello     
Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America     
D-Day Remembered: Project Overlord     
Citizen Ben     

Art and Architecture
Tribal Treasures     
Art by Ponder Goembel     
American Folk Art     
Manhattan Skyscrapers     

Cultures
Italia     
Chinese Calligraphy: The Art of Expression     
Paris, City of Lights     
Women Worldwide     
Indian Arts     

People
The Legend of Blackbeard     
C.S. Lewis: Into the Wardrobe     
Manet by the Sea     

Nature
Star Bright     
In the Garden     
John Muir     
Flowers in Books and Drawings     

Pastimes
Exposed     
Sailors' Tales     
Game, Set, Match!     
Hold 'Em, Fold 'Em     

The Mind
Dreams     
Mood and Madness     
Dying to Be Thin     
On Seeing     

Month-by-Month Display Ideas     
Some Construction Techniques     
Bibliography     
Index     
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