Choosing Books for the Library

 Somewhat recently I have been given permission to choose books for different sections of the library I intern at. First,it was the YA and youth sections, then the children's section, and then, more recently, the adult section. My dream is to become a YA/youth librarian, so getting to choose books for that section was a lot of fun and great practice for the future, although it definitely had it's challenges. I started by going through the books and seeing what books are popular in that section. I quickly learned that those reading books in the YA and youth sections don't take out a lot of contemporary novels and prefer reading science fiction and fantasy. So, I made sure the order had a decent amount of those genres. I searched various book selling websites like Ingram, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc., as well as lists on Goodreads and other websites that reviewed books. It could be difficult sometimes when deciding what books to add to the list and which ones I shouldn't. Mainly because I might find a book that sounds amazing to me, but might not do well in the library. Or the exact opposite; I would find a book that sounds unappealing to me, but it would probably go out a lot if it was put in the collection. The adult and children's sections were more difficult for me than the YA and youth sections, since I was less familiar with the books in those age groups and what is popular in those sections. It was an interesting experience doing this, and I'm looking forward to doing this more in the future. Hopefully, the library users like the books I chose!

Women's History Month Library Display

In honor of Women's History Month, the library I'm interning at had me put together a display. We don't have a lot of display space in our library, so we have to get creative with what we do have. For this display, I spent some time researching what other libraries had done. I had few ideas about what I might want to do, but I wasn't entirely sure yet. I found a display that another library did for book characters, where they put some information about the character and had people guess who it is. I decided to do something similar to that, except I would replace the book characters with important women in history.

         

I made cards for 20 different women throughout history. Each has a description of what they have done on the outside, and a picture with their name and the years they lived on the inside. After I made those, I went are the library and found books for the display about important events and people in women's history. I enjoyed making this display, and I feel like I've learned about a lot of different important women in history by doing this. I'm looking forward to making more displays like this in the future!