The observant among you may have noticed that for the last few months, we have been tweaking our displays and moving stuff around at the Library!
What’s going on upstairs?
These changes were focused on our media section and were designed to consolidate our media collection while giving space to highlight and expand our Graphic Novel, Video Game, and New and Featured Juvenile and Teen collections.
What changes were made? First, we moved several shelves to give the area a new layout. Graphic novels for Teens and for Adults were interfiled on the large, L-shaped shelving unit. Fiction and Nonfiction Audiobooks are now sharing one shelving unit next to the public phone, while all our Nonfiction DVDs have been moved to the low shelving unit across from the Game Space. The other side of this shelving unit now holds all our video games, and its neighboring unit holds all our Children’s Media (audiobooks, DVDs, and music). Our Fiction DVDs haven’t moved at all!
These changes bring a lot of benefits to the Library. Moving the Teen Graphic Novels freed up a whole wall in the Youth area where we are displaying our collections of New Children’s and Teen materials. Moving the Graphic Novels for Adults freed up their original shelf, which will give us space to bring the Large Print Fiction upstairs. The new space given to Graphic Novels allows us to showcase more items on face-out displays and gives us room to grow that collection. Condensing our media items onto their respective shelves reduces wasted space and makes browsing easier, and placing the video games on a lower shelf makes them more accessible to children. Finally, the new shelf layout opened up the area for puzzle and chess tables, and we are so excited at how much activity those tables are attracting.
Where did the Holds go, and what’s on the shelves where they used to be?
This display now has new Large Print titles, and new titles in Spanish. To find your holds, head around the corner from the Accounts and Holds desk, to the back wall near the copier and Computer Lab.
What’s next?
Stop by the Library to check out the new changes…and stay tuned for more. We didn’t get to our 100-year-anniversary without embracing change when we see a way to serve you better!
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-Special thanks to the amazing team who made all these changes and contributed to this post: Linda, Brandon, Jamie, Julie, Susan, and Pamela, with an assist from a number of other Library staff!