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FROM: "Donna El Tabib" <ElTabibD@boulder.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/18/00, 11:16 AM

Fran,

I'm copying my reply to a question about displays from a few months, ago. There might be some ideas here for you.

I have two display shelves to work with. The large one is 3 sections across, the small one has 2 partitions; both are five shelves high. Usually, I change the small display weekly and the larger one every other week. The displays are listed in our monthly 'bulletin/newsletter,' so I have to come up with a monthly schedule. Chase's Calendar of Events is very helpful for ideas - i.e. Older Americans Month; National Gardening Week, etc. I try to mix up the displays as much as possible - fiction and nonfiction from different areas of the collection. Here are some displays that have been quite popular (read, I can't keep the shelves full!), that I don't recall having been mentioned already:

The Best of Intentions (for the New Year, of course)
Historical Mysteries - Past Crimes in Past Times
Digging in the Dirt - National Garden Week
Over the Years - New York Times Bestsellers Revisited
Dog Days of Summer - Reading to Keep You Cool
Sisters in Crime - Female Detectives
A Rainbow of Titles (anything w/a color or the words color or rainbow in the title)
Perchance to Dream - Sleeping and Dreaming
Guilty Pleasures (those books we barely admit to reading!)
Salute to Pets in Fact and Fiction
Celebrate the Freedom to Read - Banned & Challenged Books
To the Ends of the Earth - Explorers & Adventurers
From the Desk Of . . . Essays, Letters, & Misc. Writings (818s)
Dragons, Unicorns, and Other Mythical Creatures

and so on . . . !
Doing the displays is one of my favorite parts of the job, but I never seem to have quite enough time!

Donna

Donna El Tabib
Boulder Public Library
Boulder, CO
eltabibd@boulder.lib.co.us

FROM: "Viccy Kemp" <VKemp@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/18/00, 12:25 PM

This response prompted a memory I had from last year when, during April, I
had planned to do a "Raining Cats and Dogs" display (in conjunction with
"...April showers bring May flowers...."). I assume it would have been
similar to the "Salute to Pets in Fact and Fiction" idea. However, I ended
up not doing it in order to participate in the Horatio Hornblower display
contest from ALA. I still think it would be a cute idea.
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna El Tabib [SMTP:ElTabibD@boulder.lib.co.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 11:17 AM
> To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: Display ideas -Reply
>
> Fran,
>
> I'm copying my reply to a question about displays from a few months, ago.
> There might be some ideas here for you.
>
> I have two display shelves to work with. The large one is 3 sections
> across, the small one has 2 partitions; both are five shelves high.
> Usually, I change the small display weekly and the larger one every other
> week. The displays are listed in our monthly 'bulletin/newsletter,' so I
> have to come up with a monthly schedule. Chase's Calendar of Events is
> very helpful for ideas - i.e. Older Americans Month; National Gardening
> Week, etc. I try to mix up the displays as much as possible - fiction and
> nonfiction from different areas of the collection. Here are some
> displays that have been quite popular (read, I can't keep the shelves
> full!), that I don't recall having been mentioned already:
>
> The Best of Intentions (for the New Year, of course)
> Historical Mysteries - Past Crimes in Past Times
> Digging in the Dirt - National Garden Week
> Over the Years - New York Times Bestsellers Revisited
> Dog Days of Summer - Reading to Keep You Cool
> Sisters in Crime - Female Detectives
> A Rainbow of Titles (anything w/a color or the words color or
> rainbow in the title)
> Perchance to Dream - Sleeping and Dreaming
> Guilty Pleasures (those books we barely admit to reading!)
> Salute to Pets in Fact and Fiction
> Celebrate the Freedom to Read - Banned & Challenged
> Books
> To the Ends of the Earth - Explorers & Adventurers
> From the Desk Of . . . Essays, Letters, & Misc. Writings (818s)
> Dragons, Unicorns, and Other Mythical Creatures
>
> and so on . . . !
> Doing the displays is one of my favorite parts of the job, but I never
> seem to have quite enough time!
>
> Donna
>
> Donna El Tabib
> Boulder Public Library
> Boulder, CO
> eltabibd@boulder.lib.co.us

FROM: "Judy Koopmann" <jkoopman@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 12:27 PM

This is actually a request for display titles -
For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
"different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman

leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
welcome.
Judy Koopmann
North Salem Free Library

FROM: "Karen Bilton" <karenb@wccls.lib.or.us>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 1:46 PM

How about Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins. It's a play, not a novel but a
great, fun and offbeat love story. Or you could include the video in your
display.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Koopmann [SMTP:jkoopman@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:42 AM
> To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: Re: Display ideas -Reply
>
> This is actually a request for display titles -
> For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
> "different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
> that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman
>
> leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
> They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
> welcome.
> Judy Koopmann
> North Salem Free Library
>
>

FROM: "Marjorie Freilich-Den" <M_Freilich-Den@rocketmail.com>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 3:16 PM

Dustin Hoffman's movie "The Graduate" is based on
Charles Webb novel "The Graduate", a funny, kind of
love story.

Margie

--- Karen Bilton <karenb@wccls.lib.or.us> wrote:
> How about Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins. It's a
> play, not a novel but a
> great, fun and offbeat love story. Or you could
> include the video in your
> display.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Judy Koopmann
> [SMTP:jkoopman@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:42 AM
> > To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
> > Subject: Re: Display ideas -Reply
> >
> > This is actually a request for display titles -
> > For a February display, I'd like to list titles
> of some
> > "different" love stories - not the usual
> "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
> > that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and
> the Ape" where a woman
> >
> > leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's
> fallen in love with.
> > They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas
> and suggestions are
> > welcome.
> >
> Judy Koopmann
> >
> North Salem Free Library
> >
> >
>
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FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <grichard@spl.org>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 4:20 PM

My branch used to own a copy of the story that was in novel format. Out
of print now, of course! But you may have it in your collection. HTH
Gayle Richardson

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Karen Bilton wrote:

> How about Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins. It's a play, not a novel but a
> great, fun and offbeat love story. Or you could include the video in your
> display.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Judy Koopmann [SMTP:jkoopman@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:42 AM
> > To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
> > Subject: Re: Display ideas -Reply
> >
> > This is actually a request for display titles -
> > For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
> > "different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
> > that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman
> >
> > leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
> > They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
> > welcome.
> > Judy Koopmann
> > North Salem Free Library
> >
> >
>

FROM: "Susan Creed" <screed@spokpl.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 4:31 PM

Last Lovers by WIlliam Wharton

At 01:41 PM 1/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
>This is actually a request for display titles -
> For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
>"different" love stories >
Judy Koopmann
> North Salem Free Library
>
>
>
>
Susan Creed
Youth Services Librarian,
Shadle Library
Spokane Public Library
2111 W. Wellesley
Spokane, WA 99205
screed@spokpl.lib.wa.us

FROM: "Denise M. McFarland" <mcfarland@webryders.com>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 4:39 PM

Judy,

How To Murder the Man of Your Dreams by Dorothy Cannell comes right to mind.
It was the first title by her that I had ever read & it kept me in stitches!
(I then ILLd How to Murder your Mother-in-law & hoped it wouldn't arrive at
the same time she did!)

Denise
Sullivan PL
Sullivan, NH

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:41:37 -0500
From: Judy Koopmann <jkoopman@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us>
Subject: Re: Display ideas -Reply

This is actually a request for display titles -
For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
"different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman
leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
welcome.
Judy Koopmann
North Salem Free Library

FROM: "Ridgefield Library Fiction Room" <rdgnovel@biblio.org>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 4:41 PM

How about something along the "Love Is in the Eye of the Beholder" theme? I
don't have Bartlett's or the like handy, but isn't this Shakespeare? Maybe
Midsummer?

At 01:41 PM 01/19/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>This is actually a request for display titles -
> For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
>"different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
>that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman
>
>leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
>They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
>welcome.
> Judy Koopmann
> North Salem Free Library
>
>
>
>
Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Reader's Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
Ridgefield, CT
rdgnovel@biblio.org

FROM: "Vicki Nesting" <vnestin@bellsouth.net>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 6:39 PM

How about Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls and The Reader by Bernhard
Schlink?

Judy Koopmann wrote:
>
> This is actually a request for display titles -
> For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
> "different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
> that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman
>
> leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
> They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
> welcome.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vicki Nesting, Circulation Librarian
West Bank Regional Library
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
vnestin@bellsouth.net

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FROM: "MILLS Kirby D" <Kirby.D.MILLS@ci.eugene.or.us>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 6:40 PM

Of Such Small Differences -- Joanne Greenberg. Love affair
between a blind/deaf man and an unimpaired woman--touching
and challenging

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir -- Alice Denham. Woman and a sea
captain's ghost. Funny at times but finally quite sad--the
movie, not the TV series, is similar to the book

Bear -- Marian Engel. This oddity from the 70s may make a
warped display with The Woman and the Ape. A woman living
in a remote cabin has a growing sensual attachment to a
bear, which does get consummated. Strange and intelligent
novel

and a nonfiction I read back in the 70s:

A Very Different Love Story -- Berry Stainback. Linda decided
to end her relationship with Burt. Burt, a somewhat possessive
type, hired thugs to throw acid in Linda's face. Ten years
later Burt was released from prison and Linda married him.
When the book was written they were still in love. Decades
before Jerry Springer!

-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Koopmann [<A HREF="mailto:jkoopman@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us">mailto:jkoopman@wlsmail.wls.lib.ny.us</A>]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:42 AM
To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: Re: Display ideas -Reply


This is actually a request for display titles -
For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
"different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman

leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
welcome.
Judy Koopmann
North Salem Free Library

FROM: <ROBENC@aol.com>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 6:49 PM

"If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him" by Sharyn McCrumb
Roben
in VA

FROM: "Patience Beer" <beerpati@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/19/00, 7:41 PM

We did a display last year called BODY PARTS. All the books had some body
part in the title. There were lots of book with heart or eye or hand, but
we got quite giddy coming up with more obscure parts such as tongue, toe,
spleen, etc. It was very hot last summer, perhaps the heat had gotten to
us. We also had a classroom visible torso and a paper skeleton to go with
the display.

After all the Titanic hoopla, we did a display of our old nautical
adventures, called EVERYONE LOVES A SAILOR OR BEYOND THE TITANIC. That
moved a lot of shelf sitters. We had an oar and a poster of a sailing ship
and a sailor's cap as part of the display.

===========================================================================
Patience C. Beer PHONE: 248 625-2212
Head of Adult Services FAX: 248 625-8852
Independence Township Library
6495 Clarkston Road
Clarkston, MI 48346

E-Mail: beerpati@metronet.lib.mi.us

"A good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and
life is actively enriched." John K. Hutchens

FROM: "Rachel Kohl Community Library" <kohllibrary@delco.lib.pa.us>
REC'D: 1/20/00, 9:40 AM

Another book involving a "different" love story: The Giant's House by
Elizabeth McCracken. An oversized boy and a librarian.

Meg Hawkins
Rachel Kohl Community Library
689 Smithbridge Rd. P.O. Box 931
Concordville PA 19331

FROM: "Debbie Darwine" <darwined@lagrangelibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/20/00, 12:22 PM

I liked "Second Nature" by Alice Hoffman, in which a woman falls for a man
who was raised by wolves.

Debbie Darwine
LaGrange Public Library
LaGrange, IL

Judy Koopmann wrote:

> This is actually a request for display titles -
> For a February display, I'd like to list titles of some
> "different" love stories - not the usual "boy-meets-girl" variety. One
> that comes to mind is Peter Hoeg's "The Woman and the Ape" where a woman
>
> leaves her husband to go off with an ape she's fallen in love with.
> They don't need to be that offbeat but all ideas and suggestions are
> welcome.
> Judy Koopmann
> North Salem Free Library

--

FROM: "Claudia Livolsi" <clivolsi@biblio.org>
REC'D: 1/20/00, 3:20 PM

Night Gardening by E. S. Swann (pseudonym for Kathryn Lasky) came out in
1999 is the story of a romance based on a love of gardening between a
stroke victim (I think) and the gardener on the other side of the wall.


Claudia Livolsi
Children's Librarian
Monroe Public Library
Monroe, CT
clivolsi@biblio.org

FROM: "Fiction_L" <fictionl@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 1/21/00, 3:05 PM

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From: "Nora M. Armstrong" <narmstro@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
To: Fiction_L <fictionl@nslsilus.ORG>
Subject: Re: Display ideas -Reply (fwd)
Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2000, 10:25 AM


Fro another unusual true-life love story, how about DARED AND DONE, a bio
of the Brownings? It's a '99 title, I believe, and the author's name
escapes me at the moment...

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
narmstro@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: "Lois Hartwig" <lhartwig@kcls.org>
REC'D: 1/29/00, 1:03 PM

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Viccy Kemp wrote:

We did this last year using "Reigning Cats and Dogs" It was very popular!

> This response prompted a memory I had from last year when, during April, I
> had planned to do a "Raining Cats and Dogs" display (in conjunction with
> "...April showers bring May flowers...."). I assume it would have been
> similar to the "Salute to Pets in Fact and Fiction" idea. However, I ended
> up not doing it in order to participate in the Horatio Hornblower display
> contest from ALA. I still think it would be a cute idea.
> Viccy Kemp
> The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donna El Tabib [SMTP:ElTabibD@boulder.lib.co.us]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 11:17 AM
> > To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
> > Subject: Display ideas -Reply
> >
> > Fran,
> >
> > I'm copying my reply to a question about displays from a few months, ago.
> > There might be some ideas here for you.
> >
> > I have two display shelves to work with. The large one is 3 sections
> > across, the small one has 2 partitions; both are five shelves high.
> > Usually, I change the small display weekly and the larger one every other
> > week. The displays are listed in our monthly 'bulletin/newsletter,' so I
> > have to come up with a monthly schedule. Chase's Calendar of Events is
> > very helpful for ideas - i.e. Older Americans Month; National Gardening
> > Week, etc. I try to mix up the displays as much as possible - fiction and
> > nonfiction from different areas of the collection. Here are some
> > displays that have been quite popular (read, I can't keep the shelves
> > full!), that I don't recall having been mentioned already:
> >
> > The Best of Intentions (for the New Year, of course)
> > Historical Mysteries - Past Crimes in Past Times
> > Digging in the Dirt - National Garden Week
> > Over the Years - New York Times Bestsellers Revisited
> > Dog Days of Summer - Reading to Keep You Cool
> > Sisters in Crime - Female Detectives
> > A Rainbow of Titles (anything w/a color or the words color or
> > rainbow in the title)
> > Perchance to Dream - Sleeping and Dreaming
> > Guilty Pleasures (those books we barely admit to reading!)
> > Salute to Pets in Fact and Fiction
> > Celebrate the Freedom to Read - Banned & Challenged
> > Books
> > To the Ends of the Earth - Explorers & Adventurers
> > From the Desk Of . . . Essays, Letters, & Misc. Writings (818s)
> > Dragons, Unicorns, and Other Mythical Creatures
> >
> > and so on . . . !
> > Doing the displays is one of my favorite parts of the job, but I never
> > seem to have quite enough time!
> >
> > Donna
> >
> > Donna El Tabib
> > Boulder Public Library
> > Boulder, CO
> > eltabibd@boulder.lib.co.us
>

Lois Hartwig, Asst. Managing Librarian
North Bend Library
King County Library System
115 E. Fourth Street
North Bend, WA 98045
(425)888-0784 Voice
(206)296-0216 Fax or Voice

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