Start Your Week Off With Some Crowdsourced Display Ideas, Tips, Tricks and Resources

Back in November, I was part of the RUSA CODES Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Committee that conducted an email conversation about Collection Merchandising-- aka Displays.

Below are the details and here is the link to the committee notes. The notes are Kick off your week with help from your peers.

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RUSA CODES Readers' Advisory Research and Trends Committee.

Convo Topic: CollectionMerchandising

November 13, 2018

Book displays are a great way to draw attention to overlooked materials, increase overall circulation, and to encourage patrons to discover new authors, genres, ideas, or interests while browsing in your library.

Committee:

Alicia Ahlvers 

Daryl Maxwell 

Magan Szwarek 

Jackie Parker 

Robin Bradford 

Victoria Caplinger 

Gloria Drake 

Shanna Speer 

Becky Spratford 

Hana Zittel

Committee Charge: To consider issues, concerns, and trends relative to the development of readers' advisory services in all types of libraries; to be a forum for discussion about popular materials and readers' advisory services in libraries; to create/gather resources for RA librarians; to create standards and guidelines; to encourage and disseminate research on popular materials collections and their use in libraries; to identify continuing education needs of librarians and library support staff and create/disseminate information to assist with this need.

Collection Merchandising Discussion: Special Guest Moderator Lila Denning (St. Petersburg Library System, FL)

Click here to read the notes for yourself. I promise that these notes will be both useful for ideas and inspiration for the future.