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FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@glendaleaz.com>
REC'D: 3/11/03, 3:14 PM

Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme and title would be great!

Thanks,
Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

FROM: "Jennifer Compton" <[removed]@oc.edu>
REC'D: 3/11/03, 3:14 PM

There are some books called _what men know about women_ and _what women
know about men_. When you open them up, inside they are full of blank
pages. That sounds pretty April Fools like to me.

J.J. Compton
Technical Services Librarian
Oklahoma Christian University
(405) 425-5314
[removed]@oc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Colcord [[removed]@glendaleaz.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:02 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: April Fool's Day

Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme
and title would be great!

Thanks,
Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

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FROM: Michele Reinhart <[removed]@ghpl.org>
REC'D: 3/11/03, 3:57 PM

Lisa,

I did a display for April Fool's Day last year. It was titled simply "April
Fools" and I used a court jester-style cap for the artwork. Because I work in
my library's non-fiction department, humor was my theme and I displayed any
biographies of comedians or books written by comedians as well as books about
stand-up comedy, sit-com television shows, telling jokes, etc. It was very
successful.

Michele Reinhart
Grandview Heights Public Library
Columbus, Ohio
[removed]@ghpl.org

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>Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme and
title would be great!
>
>Thanks,
>Lisa
>
>
>
>Lisa Colcord
>Librarian
>Glendale Public library
>Glendale, AZ
>
>....my views are my own....
>
>-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor
>
>
>
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FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 3/11/03, 4:40 PM

I think a display of books (fiction and nonfiction) with unexpected or
twisted endings would be great. I just read Charles Dickenson's A
SHORTCUT IN TIME and it had good twist at the end. Other titles might
be Jeffrey Archer's NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS and Irwin Shaw's
NIGHTWORK. Now can I think of any more? Of course not, but I'm sure
there are many more titles that would work for this kind of theme. And
sorry to say I am not coming up with any great titles for the display
but I might in the next few hours. :-)

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library


>>> [removed]@glendaleaz.com 03/11/03 01:02PM >>>
Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme
and title would be great!

Thanks,
Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

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FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@glendaleaz.com>
REC'D: 3/11/03, 5:33 PM

Thanks everyone for the great ideas! Keep 'em coming! And if anyone else has good display titles to go along with suggested books, go right ahead! I LOVE this list! (I know we did a surprise ending list not too long ago...perhaps that would work....but what could we call it?)

Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@mail.open.org 03/11/03 03:29PM >>>
I think a display of books (fiction and nonfiction) with unexpected or
twisted endings would be great. I just read Charles Dickenson's A
SHORTCUT IN TIME and it had good twist at the end. Other titles might
be Jeffrey Archer's NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS and Irwin Shaw's
NIGHTWORK. Now can I think of any more? Of course not, but I'm sure
there are many more titles that would work for this kind of theme. And
sorry to say I am not coming up with any great titles for the display
but I might in the next few hours. :-)

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library


>>> [removed]@glendaleaz.com 03/11/03 01:02PM >>>
Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme
and title would be great!

Thanks,
Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/11/03, 6:15 PM

This is kind of dorky, but I once worked at
a small branch where we hadn't planned any April
Fool's display, and the day before someone (it
wasn't me) got the bright idea to take one of our
normal displays - it was a poetry month display
that I had done - and put all the books and the
sign and everything upside-down. People were
doing doubletakes all day, and many of them would
come up to us and tell us it was upside-down, at
which point we would smile back and say 'April
Fools!', and they would laugh. The next day we
just put it all right-side-up again.
Sounds goofy, and bear in mind that this was
a pretty WASPy community where everyone knew what
April Fools' was about, but it was a fun day.
David Wright
Seattle Public Library

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/12/03, 9:15 AM

>From: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: April Fool's Day
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:29:52 -0800
>
>I think a display of books (fiction and nonfiction) with unexpected or
>twisted endings would be great.

O. Henry! His short stories are noted for them.

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FROM: "Luebering, Joan" <[removed]@cincinnatilibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/12/03, 11:12 AM

It wasn't a display, but we once did a really enjoyable annotated list of fiction and nonfiction about trickery and deception for an April web feature. Books/films about forgeries, optical illusions, covert ops, codes, frauds, cons, hoaxes, imposters, etc. It's no longer on our website, but I can send an rtf to anyone who is interested.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Colcord [[removed]@glendaleaz.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:02 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: April Fool's Day

Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme and title would be great!

Thanks,
Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

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FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 3/12/03, 12:28 PM

If you haven't thought of a title yet, I have always liked the phrase
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." If that is
too long, perhaps it could just be "Fool Me Once..." It's not great,
but I don't have a mind for clever sayings like some of my colleagues on
this list.

Off the subject a little, but speaking of clever, a co-worker was
having a birthday and another brought in a bunch of homemade bread,
butter, and other condiments, plus a toaster and said "Let's give a
toast to Phyllis' birthday!" or some such thing. :-) But then Phyllis
was the one who on April Fool's Day one year took a dark brown sponge,
spread dark icing on it, cut it in squares and fooled eveyrone into
thinking it was a brownie! We all fell for it, too!

So with that in mind, Happy April Fool's Day a little early!

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library

>>> [removed]@glendaleaz.com 03/11/03 01:02PM >>>
Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme
and title would be great!

Thanks,
Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

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FROM: "Karl G. Siewert" <[removed]@yoyology.com>
REC'D: 3/12/03, 2:15 PM

I'd think that any self-respecting April Fools Day display would have to
include at least one copy of Patterson's new novel JESTER, featuring a man
who takes revenge on a lord by posing as his Fool.

Of course, the descriptions remind me a lot of the Poe story "Hop-Frog",
where a chronically debased and insulted Fool takes grisly revenge on the
courtiers who mistreat him. It's still my favorite of Poe's short fiction.

--
Karl G. Siewert, MLIS
Reference Librarian and
Professional Yoyologist
librarian AT yoyology DOT com

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 3/12/03, 2:26 PM

Karl,

Excellent! Why didn't I think of that!

Carol

"Karl G. Siewert" wrote:

> I'd think that any self-respecting April Fools Day display would have to
> include at least one copy of Patterson's new novel JESTER, featuring a man
> who takes revenge on a lord by posing as his Fool.
>
> Of course, the descriptions remind me a lot of the Poe story "Hop-Frog",
> where a chronically debased and insulted Fool takes grisly revenge on the
> courtiers who mistreat him. It's still my favorite of Poe's short fiction.
>
> --
> Karl G. Siewert, MLIS
> Reference Librarian and
> Professional Yoyologist
> librarian AT yoyology DOT com
>
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Carol Kubala
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FROM: Heuer <[removed]@itol.com>
REC'D: 3/12/03, 5:47 PM

It will only be in a display at my library if I glue it down. How about a
dust jacket of Jester on an old book you are withdrawing. Now that would be
an April Fool's joke. (Yeah, I only wish I could do that)

--
Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI
[removed]@itol.com

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes,
Art is knowing which ones to keep." -anonymous

> I'd think that any self-respecting April Fools Day display would have to
> include at least one copy of Patterson's new novel JESTER, featuring a man
> who takes revenge on a lord by posing as his Fool.

FROM: Kaite Mediatore <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/12/03, 5:47 PM

I'll be doing one called "April Foolishness" and
putting up humorous fiction titles.

kaite
who likes to keep things very simple
--- ROBIN BEERBOWER <[removed]@mail.open.org> wrote:
> I think a display of books (fiction and nonfiction)
> with unexpected or
> twisted endings would be great. I just read Charles
> Dickenson's A
> SHORTCUT IN TIME and it had good twist at the end.
> Other titles might
> be Jeffrey Archer's NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY
> LESS and Irwin Shaw's
> NIGHTWORK. Now can I think of any more? Of course
> not, but I'm sure
> there are many more titles that would work for this
> kind of theme. And
> sorry to say I am not coming up with any great
> titles for the display
> but I might in the next few hours. :-)
>
> Robin Beerbower
> Salem (OR) Public Library
>
>
> >>> [removed]@glendaleaz.com 03/11/03 01:02PM >>>
> Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for
> April Fool's Day? Theme
> and title would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Lisa
>
>
>
> Lisa Colcord
> Librarian
> Glendale Public library
> Glendale, AZ
>
> ....my views are my own....
>
> -The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time-
> James Taylor
>
>
>
>
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>
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FROM: "Wilton Library Association" <[removed]@wiltonlibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/13/03, 10:28 AM

On the subject of books with sort of "gotcha" endings, what about Susan
Townsend's The Queen and I? To my mind it had the only ending it possibly
could have, but it is in that April fools-ish vein (i.e. "I didn't really
mean any of it"). And it's quite amusing to boot!

Sandy
====================
Sandra Clockedile, MSLIS
Head of Systems
Wilton Library Association
[removed]@wiltonlibrary.org
http://www.wiltonlibrary.org

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/13/03, 10:40 AM

[removed]@glendaleaz.com 03/11/03 01:02PM >>>
>Anyone have any ideas of a display of books for April Fool's Day? Theme
>and title would be great!

Perhaps HA! MADE YOU LOOK!

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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