#library display

[lookingforabook]

One of the librarians has been sneakily removing books from the snowman to make it slowly melt over the last couple months, and he’s finally gone. I only got a couple pictures of the process, but the later stages are hilarious

[lakecountylibrary]

hello lake county library! i’m a library assistant out of utah, and i’ve volunteered to put together our pride display this year since i’m the only queer person on the team. while i have a lot of support from our wonderful director, we’re in an area with much conflict and many book challenges.

do you have suggestions for good pride display books? especially those featuring transgender people. since we won’t ever make the challengers happy, my main hope for the display is to show the quiet queers in my community that we live, write, and matter, and that there’s a person in this building who will show up for them. thank you for any suggestions you may have.

How exciting! To get the best advice, I sent this one over to Max, who creates the Pride Month display at our largest branch every year. Here's his advice:

For my Pride displays, I typically steer more towards educational titles about queer history and key figures. Since our library is in Northwest Indiana (right outside Chicago) we have a lot of books about LGBTQ+ life in the Chicagoland area. So if there are any books that discuss queer culture and history in Utah, that'd be useful in showing patrons the long legacy of queerness in their area.  For more specific recommendations, some titles I've used are The LGBTQ+ History Book from the DK Big Ideas series, A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski (which also has a young readers' version), and The Book of Pride by Mason Funk. As the names suggest, these are all about queer history through the ages or about the Queer Liberation Movement. Another popular one is The Queens' English by Chloe Davis; since many people, especially young folks and teens, get to know queer culture via the slang that filters into media or memes, I always think it's useful for folks to learn the context of popular queer phrases and how these connect to larger histories. Looking at trans experience, a couple books I really like are Trans + and The Trans Teen Survival Guide. Both of these provide social and medical advice for trans youth. There are other titles that speak more to personal experiences from trans individuals, like Growing Up Trans by Dr. Linda Herriot, Out! by vlogger Miles Mckenna, and The T Guide by drag performers Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik.  Finally, here's a quick random list of other titles that have been crowd-pleasers on my displays:

Felix Ever After

Simon and The Homo Sapiens Agenda

Leah On The Offbeat

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

The Magic Fish

The Guncle

Queer - 2nd Edition

Transgender History

Beyond Magenta

Beyond the Gender Binary

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

I could keep going, but hopefully this gives a good jumping-off point. 

-Max

[bookravager]

I'm wanting to make a perma-display at work about anti-brainrot things our students can do, make it as fun as possible and have a lot of resources (cough that the students definitely won't even look at cough) and I'm having trouble watching the videos about combating brain rot. I was rotted and didn't even know

[aliceajisai]

Spreading the gay agenda

My feeble pride month display for the YA section in my library 🏳️‍🌈

I really tried to stick to media today’s youngsters would know… S&H was pure self indulgence/hoping to rile up some homophobic elders

Yes Neptune/Uranus being little known is a huge stretch but bad lesbrarian that I am I struggled to find “lesser known” lesbians in popular media ^^;

[gwydionmisha]

Beloved Georgia librarian fired after child chooses book with transgender character for library display

“I wasn’t going to tell the kid no,” LaVonnia Moore said. “I was just happy the kid was reading, happy they were engaging in their library.”

[scrunchiesanddraino]

Alright so I work at a library in a red county in California and since Trump’s inauguration and specifically seeing the executive orders he passed, and then his little butt-buddy Elon throwing a FULL sieg heil salute, I have been feeling desperate to help fix this. Obviously I’m just one person, I can’t do much, but I can’t just do *nothing*, and I haven’t found anything near me for any direct action so I did this.

I’ve been seeing book recommendations float around on here and TikTok and I felt like it was a good idea to make a display of them in case anyone comes into the library feeling helpless and scared because of what is happening in our country.

It’s not an exhaustive list, it was only what we had catalogued and in the main branch BUT I think it’s pretty good.

[hear-my-circles-sing]

They don't appreciate me enough at work

[lesterpubliclibrary]

Lighthouse Quilt by Lester Public Library Via Flickr: Patch of Lakeshore Quilters, Quilts on Display at the Lester Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin