One of the things I miss about working in a library is making displays. I first started making displays when I worked in the Georgia Room, Cobb County Public Library's special collection for genealogy; family, local, and state history; and Georgia authors. These displays started out very simply - a sign with a few clip art flowers advertising books on local plants in the spring, a short list of Georgia authors whose birthdays were in a given month.
I worked in the Georgia Room sporadically at first, and then for all of my part-time shifts. As I spent more time there, I got more creative with the displays. Eventually, I got a full time position in the children's department of another library in the county - one of the things they were looking for was someone to make displays. I also ended up being one of two display makers at the Marietta campus library of KSU.
Of course, as the years had gone on my displays got more in depth, requiring more work and more research. I loved using them as an opportunity to tell a "story" - to take a theme or an event and either find relevant books (sometimes using very loose interpretations of a theme) or to highlight facts and trivia.
One of my favorite display ideas (though, as one of my early ones, definitely not one of the best finished products) was my Ides of April display, highlighting various disasters and serious events that happened in the middle of April. Enjoy - and be careful out there!
If you’re interested in some of my later (better) displays, you can also check these out: https://www.iveyink.com/blog/2019/9/25/banned-books-displays-i-have-loved-part-1
https://www.iveyink.com/blog/2019/9/26/banned-books-displays-i-have-loved-part-2
