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1. Materials Merchandising: Boost Your Circulation! Rebecca Hass Michele Ringger-Weil Shayna Siegel March 10, 2011

3. Bookstores

4. Libraries

6. Why?: It’s All About the

7. Motivations to Display Bookstore Sales Libraries Community Usage increase increase Circulation increase increase Profit Funding Continued Existence of the Library! increase increase

9. Display Tables

11. Bestsellers/New Books

12. Endcap Displays

14. Faceouts

15. People do judge a book by its cover, especially young adults Jones, L. A. (2007). The Great Cover-up. School Library Journal

18. Shopping Bags

19. Cash/Wrap or Point of Check Out

20. Pratt Cafe

24. Face-outs: Sarah P. Long Study Long, S. P. (1987, Fall). The effect of face-front book display in a public library. North Carolina Libraries 45 . 150-153.

26. Ideas for a Library

28. Mount Laurel Library: Gondolas

29. Mount Laurel Library: Audiobook Display

30. Assignment: Determine Your Traffic Flow

31. What to Avoid….

33. Display Guidelines

37. Use a book truck for your display

40. What do people outside the library think?

41. What are some topic ideas?

43. Glenwood Branch, Howard County Library

46. 3. Check catalog for availability Do you have enough books to display?

48. 4. Pull books and examine for visual appeal

50. 5. Sort books by size

51. 6. Visualize shape of display-Pyramid

52. 7. Distribute books by size, color, and cover design – Class picture

54. Book Easels and Sign Holders Easels and Sign Holders can be purchased from Demco, Gaylord, Highsmith, or any other place you buy library supplies.

55. Props

56. 8. Stand back and look at it

58. 9. Keep an eye on it

60. How many things are wrong with this display?

61. What’s better about this?

62. And now for the fun part.

64. Any Final Questions?