Readership development > Best practice > Displays and presentation

Simple Ideas for increasing issues

Put some books face out at the front of the library. In order to choose the best place for them, walk out of the front door, clear your mind and pretend you’re a library user and walk back in again. Where did your eye fall first? Put the display there.

Once you’ve done that, you can start to play with the books you put there. A good first principle in Reader Development is: try to pick books that haven’t issued for a while because, let’s face it, Catherine Cookson and Margaret Thompson Davis don’t need the help.

Text by Matthew Perren (Readership Development Officer, 2002)