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!

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

Here's a lesson for student advisory groups: If you ask for something or make a suggestion, there's a good chance that your librarian will in fact listen!

My supervisor has a student advisory group, and so far we are doing our best to implement what they desire.  Their requests are reasonable, well thought out, and will make their library a better place.  The first thing they wanted was a book to movie display.  I have started working on this, but with limited display areas in our library I haven't quite found a "home" for it.  My vision is for it to be a rotating display, constantly updated as the movies are released throughout the year.  More on this if I actually get it up and displaying.

The second thing they want is to know about the new books.  We try to do this with our New Books display, which is constantly updated, but the shelving unit we have is well...kind of horrible.

It's really hard to see the books through the black bars, so I decided to do another new book bulletin board.  (This is another Pinterest idea.  I've simplified it a bit, but I still think it looks good.)

The display has pictures of all of the library's newest acquistions since the school year started.  I will have to do this "new book" bulletin board throughout the year but with different themes.  I like this one: it's bold, eye-catching, has a fun border, and includes a text message and rhetorical question that will hopefully gets students' attention.

Finally, they asked for games (games, games, games, GAMES!).  No, not these games:

These games:

We tested this out for the first time today during Uni Period, and though it might not look like a lot of students attended, I thought it was great for a first go.  I love this programming idea from our student advisory board.  I want to keep the games coming.  Maybe once a month?  First Friday Game Day?  I'll work with the title.  Maybe by the end of the year we could even have this game to play:

Oh, a librarian girl from the late 80s/early 90s can dream, eh?