#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!)

[hear-my-circles-sing]

They don't appreciate me enough at work

[lovethebadguy]

I made a Mr Cupcake for our library's Halloween display! Better keep your eyes on him...

[daydreamingnerdcat]

Walrus vs Fairy Library Display

[medusasgays]

My Halloween display is actually a secret Sabrina Carpenter 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

[jakeperalta]

I'm sorry I just cannot get over how BORING the eras tour book cover is. not only is it the same photo we've seen a million times as the tour movie poster but there's zero design elements to it?? I'd hoped that midnights + ttpd signalled taylor moving away from the recent album art trend of "just take a photo and leave it at that, who cares about incorporating the title or anything" but that's exactly what we're getting here 🥲 and it's even worse when it's a $40 coffee table book like those are meant to look good!!!!! bring back graphic designers we're in a pop culture crisis

[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 💖

[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]

ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY OCTOBER 2024 🎃

The Ghost Box. Ed. Patton Oswalt. [Edmonton, Alberta] : Hingston & Olsen Publishing, 2017.

When I Go Out I Bleed Magic. Ingrid J. Torvund.[Oslo, Norway] : Torpedo Press, 2015.

Robot Control. Angela Mark. [Allston, MA] : American Living Press, 1991.

Horror Vacuum. Kalah Faye Allen. [Kansas City, KS] : K. Allen, 1996.

The Hardy Boys in A Ghost in the Closet. Mabel Maney. [San Francisco] : World O' Girls Books, 1991.

In the Event Anyone Disappears. Bisa Washington. [Rochester, NY] : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1991.

The Dr. Frankenstein Option. David Robbins. [Graz, Austria] : Edition Forum Stadtpark, 1995.

More Satanic Verses. Russell Johnson. [New York] : Russ Johnson & Titanic Press, 1991.

Monster. Ronald Jones. [New York, NY] : Sonnabend Gallery, 1993.