Library displays

Here are some links / resources around school library displays...

• Blog by Elaine Pearson, Librarian at Horowhenua College, Levin NZ http://schoollibrarydisplays.blogspot.com/
• Blog by Ruth Buchanan, an Australian Teacher Librarian about what she's up to in her school library, http://skerricks.blogspot.com/ including display ideas, here http://skerricks.blogspot.com/search/label/display .
• Website by Anita Vandeburge at St Kentigern College Library http://www.creativelibrarydisplays.com/
• The International Reading Association website http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/ has a good calendar, organised by each month, with author birthdays etc. If you click on the link it will take you to more resources, websites, lesson plans etc. More US focused.
• Marigold Enterprises produces a list of "Happenings" with its Around the Bookshops publication. Happenings 2009 came out with the November 2008 Around the Bookshops. Go here to subscribe.
• Remember what Ross Todd said about the need for book promotion to be more active than passive - displays are great and make the library look colourful etc but instead of heaps of time making elaborate displays which stay up for ages, I'd suggest more effort into active book promotion such as book discussions, web 2.0 initiatives such as a blog or LibraryThing, and displays which change regularly !
  
• A neat idea with wordle www.wordle.net is to make one with an author's name prominent and their titles, or a genre eg Fantasy and suggested authors / titles...