Related: See What's Happening or Being Celebrated
This Day, This Week, This Month, This Day in History To use as Inspiration for Displays, etc.

Also, on my Teas2Dine4 website I have Resource Links to
FREE Online Printables. **Note: Links cover wide variety of Printable material - not Library related**

Signage In Libraries:

Humorous look at Library Signs from The Warrior Librarian: 
LIBRARY SIGNS EXPLAINED
http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/ROFL/signage.html

Book Title  Suggestions - Creating Library Displays

Library Signage Articles, Links 

• Creating a User Friendly Library 
  with Signage - A Selected Bibliograpy
  Article/Website
  Creating a User Friendly Library With Signage
  The Indiana University Northwest Experience
  http://web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/signage/index.shtml
  Goals Statement for the Signage Project
  http://web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/signage/goals.shtml

  Publications, Displays, Signage, Visual aids!
  http://www.olc.org/marketing/4pubs.htm

  ARL Spec FLYER 208 ©1995
  Effective Library Signage

  Article: What's Your Sign?
  By Julie Winkelstein — March 1, 2005 
  http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA504382.html
  Link cited in above article:
  Design Basics  from Signweb.com
  Follow these tips to create effective signage. 
  http://www.signweb.com/vinyl/cont/designbasicsb.htm

  Title:  Creating the User-Friendly Library by Evaluating Patron Perception of Signage
  Author(s): Ellen Bosman, Carol Rusinek
  Journal: Reference Services Review
  ISSN: 0090-7324
  Year: Apr 1997 Volume: 25 Issue: 1 Page: 71 - 82
  Publisher:  MCB UP Ltd
  Excerpt quoted from website
  Abstract: Despite all manners of instruction, there is a nagging sense that patrons have difficulty using the library. Further, despite the impact of the World Wide Web, the library “as a place” is important. The library building is seldom given much post-construction thought, although lighting, collection arrangement, service points, signs, and study areas all contribute to a positive learning experience. A committee at Indiana University Northwest Library investigated ways to make the library’s collection and services more accessible by improving signage. This article describes the results of a preliminary and a follow-up survey to evaluate users’ abilities to locate various signs effectively and comparatively analyzes responses from specific classes of participants.

  Online Slide Presentation
  Cornell University Library Signage
  http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/AHProjects/Library/librarysigns.pdf

  Book:
  Creating the Customer-Driven Library
  Building on the Bookstore Model | Jeannette Woodward
  http://alastore.ala.org/SiteSolution.taf?_sn=catalog2&_pn=product_detail&_op=1709
   

• Article: 
  New Horizons in Library Marketing & Signage
• Literature Review Library Signage  
• Article: 
  Informational Graphics and Sign Systems
  as Library Instruction Media <
• Article excerpt from website
  Technically Speaking:
  Boston Goes for Clarity
  By David Dorman
  American Libraries Columnist 
  Column for May 2001 
  These days even library signage is going high tech. The Boston Public Library is a case in point, having contracted with Digital Multimedia Solutions of Boston to install three digital display units. The maker, Clarity Visual Systems of Wilsonville, Oregon, sells 40-inch plasma display screens, 38–67-inch LCD rear-projection devices, and display-control software. 
  Read remainder of article online
  http://tinyurl.com/jgef8

  Article in SUNY Geneseo -  Milne Library Newsletter **pdf document
  New Library Signage Lights the Way
  http://faculty.geneseo.edu/~library/Friends/Fall2005.pdf

  PDF document
  Library Signage
  http://www.raeco.com.au/documents/SignageSmall.pdf

  ADA Compliance Checklist for Libraries
  http://skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/development/ADAcompliancechecklist.pdf

  article From WebJunction.org
  Library Design Tips for the 21st Century
  Description: Here are a few practical and simple tips that consistently lead to the most successful projects, whether planning a new building, an expansion, renovation, or a simple re-vamp.
  Copyright: 2006 Kimberly Bolan
  http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13018
   

  Library Buildings - resource links
  http://www.owls.lib.wi.us/info/links/buildings.htm
  

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  From WebJunction.org
  Library Signage
  Tips and resources that you can use to create Spanish language signage for your library.
  http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=10565

  Bilingual Library Signage
  http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/bilingualsign/main.html

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  Library Signage Inside & Out - workshop
  http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=3314&WKSHPID=26SIGN
  

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  Conference 2005 Presentation
  http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005AM/finalprogram/abstract_91423.htm
  Abstract quoted from website:
  LIBRARY SIGNAGE: CREATING EFFECTIVE SIGNS WITH POSITIVE LANGUAGE THAT WILL GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS TO BUSY PATRONS
  ROBERTS, Beth A., Earth and Mineral Sciences Library, Pennsylvania State University

  Signs: they are ubiquitous in most libraries, to the point where the messages we are trying to convey get lost in the clutter. There may be signs on the walls, signs on the printers, signs hanging from the ceiling, and messages on the computers screens when patrons sit down to use the terminals. College students, like the rest of us, are used to being bombarded constantly by messages at all turns from the media on television and the Internet as well as billboards and other advertisements. Many students don't bother to read the signs we have gone to all the trouble of posting, or may not understand what they mean when they do read them because the language is ambiguous or uses jargon. On the other side of the coin are libraries with inadequate signage that leave students at a loss as to where to go or what the rules are. This paper will address ways to gain the attention of our patrons and ways to convey our messages using positive language instead of negative language. For example, many libraries may “welcome” guests to the library with negative messages such as “NO FOOD ALLOWED” or with signs showing pictures of rats and bugs and chewed up books. This may not be the best way to warmly welcome patrons to our libraries or inspire them, particularly. Not to mention that this may drive them to go instead to places like Barnes and Noble where they can relax with a cup of coffee with a book in one hand and their laptop in the other. So, signage is clearly a critical part of the environment and plays a role in the library as place, as an appealing and user-friendly environment.
  

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  Excerpt quoted from online article
  Designing the real virtual library
  Layout
  In terms of wayfinding, the layout (the logic and legibility of the building) is the most critical area. Too often signs are introduced to correct the poorly laid out library. From the foyer the unfamiliar client should be able to 'read' the layout of the building to be able to move comfortably and confidently to all parts of the library. The visual clues presented at this and subsequent points of direction decision making make the process of using the library less threatening and less overwhelming. 
  Signage
  Permanent signs need to acknowledge that there is a hierarchy of signage. Major signs can be read from a reasonable distance with supporting information at a smaller scale to be read as the client approaches. (eg 'information assistance' is the primary sign, with the supporting services as sub-text). The foyer needs to indicate the services and collections available in the library. This information can introduce graphic symbols that can be re-stated throughout the library as visual clues - with a high percentage of students with non-English speaking backgrounds, these visual clues assume even more importance. Temporary signs indicate new services, and can be used as marketing devices to reinforce existing services. These signs must present clear and consistent information eg the events information board should be easy to modify with good visual impact. Existing signage in the Library did not facilitate wayfinding, or present information on events clearly or consistently. An electronic format which would allow for the information to be changed centrally, provide for consistency in the graphic presentation, and be kinetic with moving images and text to attract clients' attention was obviously desirable. 
  >Read complete article at
  http://www.library.uq.edu.au/papers/VALA.htm

  Fun read:
  Excerpt from website
  Libronaut | Library
  May 15, 2002
  Signage and Signification (a comedy of manners)
  

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  Online sites to purchase Library Signs
• http://www.libraryskills.com/
• Highsmith Inc.
• Vernon Library Supplies  | Signage
• Library Journal Buyer's Guide 
  Signage, Interior - Vendors
  Signage, ADA Compliant - Vendors
   
• Librarian's Yellow Pages 
  Library Signage Vendors

  ASI Sign Systems, Inc.
  ASI offers an extensive selection of creative, 
  economical ADA-ready products and SignAudit, 
  an organized survey of your facility's ADA signage needs.
  Phone: (800) 274-7732 

  Library Store, Ltd.
  Supplies and equipment for immediate delivery - 
  let us know your needs.  Please call for FREE catalog. 
  The catalog includes library supplies, archival products
  furniture, signage, AV equipment, microfilm/fiche, 
  ADA compliant products.
  Phone: (800) 858-8117 
   

• Vendor: The Library Sign Co. 
  1600 St Margarets Rd
  Annapolis, MD 21401
  Tel: 800-677-1849
  Fax: 410-757-8256
  Order the catalog with illustrative photos
  making sign selection decisions easy. 
• Vendor: Vernon Library Supplies / Signage
• Canopy Signage Vendor  
• an Australian Libraries' Library Signs 
  For Sale/Can be Customized 

Library ADA /Coordinator Newsletter article:
Adapted Library Equipment User Guides

Training Curricula - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Signage to Download
Excerpt quoted from website
Signage for Public Access Computers -- Signage with questions that can be addressed in print. These signs are also available on the Publications CD-ROM included with State Library Partnership Program can help users get started using the computers, limiting the amount of time you will spend assisting them and Native American Access to Technology Program grants. It is a good idea to print signs on brightly colored paper so they catch patrons' attention. Laminating them will make them more durable. Signs can be affixed to a desk, pinned to the wall, or taped to the top of the monitor so they flop down over the screen. Patrons can simply flip the sign back up over the top of the monitor to get started. Another option is to create signs with backing easels that allow them to stand up on the table. 
Download from this page

**Spanish language - Library Signage

Spanish-language 
signs and bookmarks for the multilingual library
Spanish-language documents suitable for display on the walls or website of your library
www.sol-plus.net/plus/printpost.htm

Print bookmarks from the Electronic Diversity Toolkit

Decorate your Libraries

Search the website AllPosters
using the Terms:
"library" or "books" or "reading"
Wonderful Selections 

ALA Graphics & Posters
Be Creative - Use some of the Graphics
and Create Your own Signs. 

Library of Congress
LC Classification Poster

Celebrating Books - Posters

National Library of Medicine
APDB Graphics Posters
NLM Clipart

Libraries for Nonviolence Posters

Library Of America Posters

How about some CLIPART to color your ,
"LIBRARY" world
Create Your Own Signs!

Also see my Logos page and download a free trial of
the logo software

Check out the resources of The Library Media & PR site
in the Toolbox

Find at your library promotional material

From IFLA, you can obtain..Bibliographic Icons
for your Library Home pages.

Search Microsofts Clipart gallery
use search terms: book, library, education, computer, etc.

Be sure to see these excellent
Sources of Library Related Clipart.
Soo-Hyoung's Library Clipart

Library Clipart

Books/Reading - Clipart

Find an alphabet to download from this page, and an idea for signage in your library
www.friendcalib.org/

Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network
Clipart collection

"Arthur" - Library Card Clipart

Books & Reading Related Clipart Resources

Discovery School Book and Reading Clipart

Purchase Library Clipart on CD's

Read this article Locating Public Domain Images

Purchase ALA Library Graphics for your Libraries. 

Use Googles Search Engine for images,
Search books,library, etc.

This is product I have bought for
Library Use & Signs
Is Avery "Printable Magnet Sheets"
for Laser Printers.
Print Documents, Signs,
Photos and More
And Place on any
"Metal" Surface!
Price: $12 for (3) - 8 x 11inch sheets
(I wait for sales)
Purchase from any Office Supply Store
or where ever Avery Products are sold.
 

I wanted to put up the following sign in
my own Library..on our Computer Lab Door
 

I felt at the end of the day...we'd still have the $2!!
Never did get a chance to post it!
Best of Luck with your own Library Signage!! 

Enjoy! Celebrating American Libraries!!!

Designing Brochures that Work
http://www.hbgraphics.com/articles/design_broch.htm

http://beta.peachpit.com/features/ndmonth/brochures.html

http://www.interpretivesigns.qut.edu.au/brochures.html

Developing Effective Brochures (tourism focus)
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modtd/33720002.html

Corporate Brochures: 
Are Yours Helping or Hurting Your Company?
How Good Are Your Company's Brochures?
http://www.kirwood.com/brochwpd.htm

Quick Guide to Columns in MS Word
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~document/documents/office/cols/columns.html
Columns are an easy way to change the look and feel of your document.
Columns are typically used in creating newsletters, bulletins or 
brochures.
The following instructions will explain how to create, delete and 
modify columns in your document

CLICKBOOK Software from Blue Squirrel lets you print/create brochures from web pages
Excerpt quoted from website:
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/clickbook/
ClickBook, a powerful yet easy-to-use printing utility, lets you print customized day planner pages, wallet booklets, brochures, greeting cards, catalogs, microfiche, and more from Internet, Windows, or CD-Rom files! ClickBook, helps you scale, rotate, and duplex your digital photos, favorite on-line content, or other critical information into 130+ mobile and convenient layouts.  You can even design your own custom layouts and save up to 70% in paper costs! 
$50 (Free trial download available) http://www.bluesquirrel.com/clickbook/

Examples of Library Brochures Online

University of Hawaii at Manoa Libraries
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/uhmlib/libinfo/brochure/cover.html

Staff Library Brochure *PDF File
http://www.ola.bc.ca/ol/services/library/ staffbrochure0501.pdf

Hinks & Elaine Shimberg Health Sciences Library  *PDF File
http://hsc.usf.edu/library/brochure.pdf

Bishop High School Virtual Library Brochure *PDF File
http://tlcic.esc20.net/Miscpdf/virtuallibrarybrochure.pdf

Janet Harte Public Library  Corpus Christie, Texas/ Support Group Brochure  *PDF File
http://www.flourbluffschools.net/assets/pdf/library.pdf

Library Services  Pellissippi State Technical Community College  *PDF File
http://www.pstcc.cc.tn.us/library/ERC_brochure.pdf

City of Kingston Library (download brochure in different languages)
http://library.kingston.vic.gov.au/main/lib_guides_librarybrochure.htm

AFRL Technical Library 
http://www.wrs.afrl.af.mil/library/key.htm

Friends of the Music Library Brochure  Western Washington University
*PDF File
download from this page:
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~musiclib/friends.shtml

I have created  a Brochure detailing highlights of this website "LibrarySupportStaff.com"
(meant to be printed double sided as a trifold brochure - anyone is welcome to print to use as a handout)
PDF Version
MS Word version

Creating Library Displays Ideas and Book Suggestions

Library Displays
star61451.tripod.com/marketingthelibrary/id4.html

Australian School Library Association (NSW) Inc. 
Library Displays - Ideas

Product Displays example:
Excerpt quoted from website
American Girl Library Displays
Pleasant Company Publications offers booksellers a variety of corrugate and permanent displays.
Whether a store has space for multiple floor displays or is limited to shelving books spine out,
effective display and merchandising materials are available.
www.pleasantcopublications.com/marketing_support/aglibrary/displays.htm

Library Displays Handbook - on sale [1991 publication]
www.hwwilson.com/print/libdisplay.htm

3d Displays for Libraries, Schools and Media Centers 
Earlene Green Green Evans  Muriel Miller Branch
ISBN: 078640860X
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Pub. Date: October  2000

Library Displays on a Shoestring: 3-Dimensional Techniques for Promoting Library Services
Wendy D. M. Barteluk
Format: Hardcover, 119pp.
ISBN: 0810826623
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Pub. Date: January 1993
From the Publisher
When governments face financial difficulties, among the first departments to 
feel cutbacks are resource centers.
Today, promoting libraries and the services they offer has become a necessity. 
Displaying that wonderful book with uninteresting cover will get it off the shelf 
and increase circulation; promoting the library informs users that there is more 
to the research than books. 
Barteluk shows the library worker in small to mid-size libraries how to turn out eye-catching, 
interest-raising displays. Using three-dimensional exhibits rather than bulletin boards, 
she focuses on the actual fabrication of exhibits.
Liberal illustrations and photographs reinforce the philosophy 
that creating appealing library displays is easy, fun, and economical. 
The author explains why promotions are necessary and tells where to 
place the displays, when to put them up and when to take them down, 
what materials to use and where to find them, how to build and use a mannequin,
how to draw when you think you can't, and how to use color.
Readers will also find tips on using and creating brochures 
and handouts, building displays that can be used more 
than once, scrounging and using props and ideas, 
and, lastly, how to store everything for further use.

Off the Wall!: School Year Bulletin Boards and Displays for the Library
Gayle Skaggs
Format: Paperback, 142pp.
ISBN: 0786401168
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Pub. Date: May 1995

On Display: 25 Themes to Promote Reading
Gayle Skaggs
Format: Paperback, 162pp.
ISBN: 0786406577
Pub. Date: April 1999

Displays and Exhibits in College Libraries, Vol. 25 
Laura Witschi Jane Kemp (Editor)
Format: Paperback, 180pp.
ISBN: 0838978991
Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
Pub. Date: June 1997

Book Displays: A Library Exhibits Handbook
Anne C. Tedeschi Jane Pearlmutter
Format: Paperback, 88pp.
ISBN: 0917846532
Publisher: Highsmith Press, LLC
Pub. Date: February 1997
From School Library Journal 
This handbook for small and medium-sized libraries offers practical advice
on planning and mounting effective exhibits. 
In a compact, manageable format, the authors clearly present a vast amount of information.
They explain how to develop an exhibit plan; they give an overview of equipment, 
including cases, lighting, and book supports; and they offer tips on publicity,
printing, insurance, and finding and planning for traveling exhibits. 
There is a valuable bibliography that includes instructions on how to subscribe to LIBEX-L,
a listserv on library exhibits. 
There is also a good list of companies that provide supplies and 
services for library displays. 
This little book is packed with informationall you'll need for a 
dynamic exhibit plan that will extend your library's information services.
Cynthia Stilley, Flint (MI) Public Library
 

Literature-Based Bulletin Boards: Create 20 Interactive Bulletin Boards 
That Turn into Beautiful Big Books--Instantly!
Elizabeth Shelton Wollner  Sharon Rodgers
ISBN: 0590896407
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Pub. Date: November  1997

25 Totally Awesome and Totally Easy Bulletin Boards:
Reproducible Templates and how-Tos for Interactive Bulletin Boards 
That Make Learning Fun
Michael Gravois
ISBN: 0439052785
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Pub. Date: June  1999

Bulletin Boards and Displays: Good Ideas for Librarians and Teachers
Gayle Skaggs
Format: Paperback, 156pp.
ISBN: 0899508847
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Pub. Date: September 1993

Display and Publicity Ideas for Libraries
Linda Campbell Franklin
Format: Paperback, 244pp.
ISBN: 0899501680
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Pub. Date: October 1985

Library Displays Handbook 
Mark Schaeffer Preface by Pyddney Jones
Format: Hardcover, 250pp.
ISBN: 0824208013
Publisher: Wilson, H.W., Company, The
Pub. Date: January 1991

Library Displays 
Nancy Everhart Claire Hartz William Kreiger
Format: Paperback, 112pp.
ISBN: 0810821834
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Pub. Date: April 1989

Today's Librarian article:
Goddesses of library display unveil their secrets
http://www.todayslibrarian.com/articles/0c1desk.html

E is for Exhibit
http://www.azla.org/azla2000/tronson.html
Contents 
Choosing A Display 
How Do You Begin 
Putting A Display Together 
Library Display Theme Possibilities 
Partnerships 
Ideas For Interactive Displays 
Print Resources 

SUGGESTIONS FOR TEMPORARY LIBRARY DISPLAYS
http://mangaung.ofs.gov.za/LIBRARY/2000suggestions_for_temporary.htm

Pictures of Examples of Consumer Health "Library Displays"
Consumer Health Information Service
A Community Service of Hawaii Medical Library 

Designing for the Visually Impaired
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/visualimpairment/
The resources address color and design issues related to visual perception. 
How to use color effectively for audiences with limited eyesight or color blindness.

Article:
Display cases for academic libraries
Susan Brazer and Andrea Wyman
Ten tips for better display cases.
C&RLNews ( article in print only)
October 2001   V. 62 no.  9 pages 904-908

Related Resources- find ideas for creating current displays
Find information about: What's Being Celebrated or Observed this month or day
Find out what's happening in the Library World - Library News & Commentary

Librarians' Tool Kit
Design & Construction
first impressions make a positive impact on your community
winslo.state.oh.us/services/LPD/tk_design.html

See general links: Re: Library Buildings / OWLS Links for Librarians
www.owls.lib.wi.us/info/links/buildings.htm

Planning & Building Libraries
www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/architecture/books.html

Planing Children's Libraries
dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/425/libraries/images.html

Public Library Space Needs: A Planning Outline / 1998 
www.dpi.state.wi.us/dlcl/pld/plspace.html

Library Space Planning Guide - **Note this is a pdf file**
Connecticut State Library
www.cslib.org/libsp02.pdf

ARL Bimonthly Report 222
June 2002
Collaborate or Die: Designing Library Space

MS Word document
Bibliography of Resources on Space Planning
www.aallnet.org/chapter/llops/committees/program/spacebib.doc

Library Facilities Planning--A Bibliography
--compiled by Anita Breckbill and Paul Orkiszewski, 1999
www.musiclibraryassoc.org/committee/co_fac_bibliography.htm

Library Construction Bibliography
www.silo.lib.ia.us/for_ia_libraries/library_construction/lib_const_bib.html

Article
LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research
1996 Volume 6 Issue 1/2; June.
The Impact of Technology on Library Space Requirements.

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