Teen library space

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I am very lucky in that I have two very artistic assistants who do displays for our teens. After 20some years doing displays, I was getting kind of burned out and to be honest, I wasn’t awesome at it. But my assistants are, so it was a task I was happy to delegate. We would […]

Jess has written about using Scratch Tickets for Teen Summer Reading in the past (and her idea actually got picked up by School Library Jou...

Library book display. "They're #1." Each book is the first in a series. Useful for promoting series that don't get checked out often, or that might be in a different genre than people typically read.

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Blind Date with a Book - February 2014 This was a passive program conjured up by the teen librarian at another branch in our system, which she said was very successful. Using her model, I conjured up this display. The idea behind Blind Date with a Book, if you haven't seen this elsewhere yet (it's all over the place), is that you wrap up a book with wrapping paper or here, newspaper. You write a short "dating profile", and patrons can take home a book based on that information. This is a…

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