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Legal Research on the Go
Our goal here at Librarian Design Share is to be able to inspire you with creative ideas so that you can take them back and modify them for your own use in your library. David McClure, Head of...
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What Did You Do Today?
Often we create a single design to promote a library event, but every now and then an event is so important that it deserves an entire marketing campaign. This was the case for Maryland Day. Rebecca...
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Miniature Marketing
For Medical Librarian’s Month last year, I created labels to put on Hershey’s Miniatures. I originally got the idea after receiving a box full of treats from Amigos Library Services for their online...
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Pop Up Herb Truck
Library displays are often planned out laboriously, but other times they happen organically (pun intended), as the case with the Pop Up Herb Truck at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale...
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Simplifying the Copy Machine
Why are copy machines so hard to use? It seems like the basic functions haven’t changed in years, yet every machine is different, and every one is overly complicated. The relatively new machine at my...
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Same Design, New Use
A few months back, I went to a resource fair in my institution, and another department had an interesting giveaway that I hadn’t seen before: an iPad cleaner. Of course, this is really nothing more...
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PowerPoint to Impress
When the Senior Vice President makes 3 hours in his schedule to tour your library and talk to each department and staff member, you have to come up with something to impress him. We originally thought...
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Branding Your Library
We librarians tend to make a lot of help sheets and signage to assist patrons as they use our resources. That’s really what Librarian Design Share is about, right? But even with best intentions, we...
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When Bad Things Happen
There aren’t many things more tragic in a library than a flood. When our ceiling gave way last week to a giant black waterfall over our bound journals and public area, we could hardly believe our...
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Making Your Library Promotion Pop
We’re all working to make our designs pop as librarians, but it’s probably rare that we actually sit back to consider the principles behind the designs we are making. However, just a couple of months...
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Library Therapy
Miyo Davis at St. Francis College Library wanted to host a Library Study Break for students during finals, but didn’t have the budget for a huge event. Inspired by this post on Librarian Design Share...
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Flood of Information
Sometimes when bad things happen, you brush them under the rug and pretend they never happened. Other times, you have to address them, embrace them, and then celebrate them. I’m so happy that our...
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A Breath of Fresh Air
We recently had some changes in our library, which precipitated a change in the General Info sheet that we have on our desk. Originally, I was just going to update the information, but it seemed like...
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Let Us Know
Assessment isn’t easy, and sometimes the hardest part of measuring your effectiveness is getting patrons to take a survey. When our library embarked on the LibQual survey last month, we had a goal to...
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Commercial Appeal
You know that time at the beginning of a class where students are shuffling in, uncomfortably finding seats, messing with their phones, and avoiding eye contact with the instructor? I seem to have 5-10...
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Vintage-Modern Message
Paseo Verde Library in Nevada has the same problem that many libraries do: patrons who loudly carry on phone conversations without regard for those around them. Instead of shushing or putting up...
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No Original Ideas
I’m pretty sure that there are no original ideas out there anymore. I regularly apply this philosophy to designs I create. When I start a new project, I find something that is inspiring, and then try...
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Happy Medical Librarians Month (a little late)
October was National Medical Librarians month. I realize that’s in the rear-view mirror now, but still wanted to share what we did to celebrate in my library this year. I was inspired by a trip that...
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Holiday Hours
Like many libraries out there, my library has reduced hours during the holidays. This creates quite a bit of confusion for patrons, and it’s compounded when our signage looks like this: Sure, all the...
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Honey Badger vs. Grumpy Cat
We live in a world of fickle and fast preferences. Virginia Alexander, a Reference Librarian at The University of South Carolina Upstate, had previously used the honey badger meme featured here on...
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