Let's Go to the Movies!

It's here!  It's finally here!  We finally figured out where to put our monthly movie display.  My supervisor, genius that she is, suggested just making a small, mini-display SIGN and placing it on the circ desk.  Each month we can put the book that might be the most popular read/movie next to it.  NOTE: We had our one copy of Gone Girl next to the display for about 30 seconds before an undergrad student requested it.  :(  We had to ship it off to them.

Methodology, you ask?  Well, here it is: Each month I'll replace the titles portion of the board.  I envision just gluing the new sheet on top of the old.  I hope this works, so I don't have to mutilate and shape new cardboard every month.  (It took way too long for me to cut this cardboard from a huge tri-fold we had lying around.  More librarian problems.  Note to self: Learn how to better use an exacto knife.)

With this mini-display, we are publicizing the book to movie selections (like the student advisory committee wanted us to do), and we are utilizing the circ desk to have another layer of information (and fun!) available from where the students check out and ask reference questions.

So far I have already caught several students checking out the display...and mercilessly mocking Nicolas Cage's Left Behind effort.  (There's a grassroots student movement here where they post pictures in each other's lockers with Nic Cage's visage photoshopped on top of cats, princesses, or anything else.  Yes.  It IS mildly disturbing.  Upon seeing the display, one student exclaimed, "NICOLAS CAGE!  YES!"  I wouldn't be surprised, though, if a couple check out the movie just to laugh at him the whole time.)  This is awesome news!  Yay!