#Library display

[lookingforabook]

One of the librarians has been sneakily removing books from the snowman to make it slowly melt over the last couple months, and he’s finally gone. I only got a couple pictures of the process, but the later stages are hilarious

[lakecountylibrary]

This one's not a book rec, but we wanted to take a second to brag on our Highland Branch janitor, Lynne. She makes these cake sculptures out of brick and asphalt!

These are on display right now at Highland Branch - if you're in the area, stop by for a closer look (but please don't taste!)

[daydreamingnerdcat]

Walrus vs Fairy Library Display

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I saw your disability pride flag at my university library for a Disability Pride month display by the door. Didn't get a picture, but it made me smile.

I love that this flag is being spotted at libraries. Maybe it's a sign that actually teaching disability history is not far off.

[princessxombie]

I like making displays at work. This one in the YA section is for books like Hunger Games with lots of competition and fighting.

[lailarobinson]

My library display at Everett Cattell Library at Malone University to showcase our guest speaker Dr. Kelly M. Kapic

[fulloffeels]

It was time to change the endcap display, so I saw my chance and I took it

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

View other type specimen books.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[sixofravens-reads]

Book Haul: Whoops, it's Almost My Birthday Edition

Went to the bookstore downtown today to get a present for my friend and a little treat for myself...ended up with about 30% Friend Present and 60% Me Present, whoops lol

(friend's present is not pictured bc I'm not sure if she checks this blog)

[banffcentrelibraryandarchives]

SEPTEMBER ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY!

CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine. Olga & Pavel Syutkin; translated by Ast A. Moore. [London] : Fuel Design & Publishing, 2015.

The Mental Health Cookbook. Finn Cunningham. [Los Angeles, California] : & Pens Press, 2015.

Artist's Cocktails. Ryan Gander, Phil Mayer. [London] : Dent-De-Leone, 2015.

Light and Flaky : Portrait of the Artist's Mother : A Cookbook. Lise Melhorn-Boe, Pauline Melhorn. [Toronto] : Transformer Press, 1982.

The Starving Artists' Cookbook. Paul Eidia, Melissa Eidia. [New York] : Eidia Books, 1991.

The Futurist Cookbook. F. T. Marinetti. [San Francisco] : Bedford Arts, 1989.

Very Food. Silvia Ziranek. [London] : Book Works, 1987.

Recipe Written from Memory 2. Ross Angus Macaulay, Perro Verlag. [Mayne Island, BC] : Perro Verlag Books by Artists, 2012.

Folly Acres Cook Book. Sue Webster; illustrated by Tim Nobel and Sue Webster. [London] : Other Criteria, 2015.

Type Pie: (A Vaguely Erotic Recipe for Disaster). Marine Parsons, Tara Bryan. [St. John's, Newfoundland] : Walking Bird Press, 2017.

[lookingforabook]

Library display: Books with ‘Sedimental’ Value

[lakecountylibrary]

Our Pride display at Merrillville Branch! One side is fiction, the other is nonfiction 🌈

And since we get this question a lot - YES, you can check out things from the display! We love seeing empty spots! A display we're constantly having to refill is a big success 💖

[overhaulhautecouture]

he wants to play with you—will you play with him?

[bowtiepastabitch]

Biting off a bit more than I can chew today. I doubt I’ll be able to read them all, but checking them out is good for the library and it’s good for me. Plus I’m being optimistic, maybe something here can fix the burnout. (Neil Gaiman please save me) If not, I shall simply absorb the book magic via the osmosis of keeping them on my bedside table for the next two weeks. Library books are cool like that.

[sleepy-vix]

do you ever just get offended when your favourite book, a literary masterpiece that made you weep and cry and completely change the trajectory of your life, gets placed next to some young adult "what even is this?" generic-ass-plot book in a bookstore? cus i do

[ambquiroga]

i’ve been working on a miniature/diorama of the eah library to display my dolls in! here’s a sneak peek 🤭

i also posted a little process reel on insta and tiktok 🫡