October may host banned books week but if you have lived in Santa Cruz for any length of time you know that Halloween is the biggest celebration in the year here, so we had to get a head start and get our Halloween and Day of the Dead displays up before all the patrons checked them out and we had nothing to display.
Of course we could ban anyone from checking out our display books and then we would have both banned books and Halloween but since Galina has made us such a wonderful ghoulish display of all adult titles Halloweenish and there is also a display of the children's materials on the low table entering into the kid's area , I doubt we would have much luck preventing patrons from checking them out.
I have posted a sign on the J items asking that patron's limit their selections to 3 per visit (see, they are almost banned) so if you see anyone at the self-check with big piles of Halloween books you might offer a gentle reminder that we want to have enough materials available for all to enjoy. The display will be up all month so there should be plenty of time for everyone to get their Halloween fix.
As always if you find titles, either Adult or Juvenile that you think appropriate for a Halloween theme please add them to the displays. These aren't just limited to monsters, witches and ghosts, but also things like pumpkins, costumes, horror fiction...candy corn?? Use your most creative judgement. I am sure that everything in these displays will circulate!
And don't forget to start planning your costume!!
The branch is almost entirely weeded now so there should be lots of room on the shelves. Do let me know if you find areas that are still impacted and we shall see what can be done. Thanks again to Riley for shifting and for all of you for shelf straightening and making our branch look beautiful. Keep it up because on Thursday there will be a branch tour by the Site committee including various big wigs and consultants as well as Teresa and Gale. They will be looking at each branch as they determine how best to spend monies set aside for the new building refurbishment, etc. I am not sure how Capitola will fare as we were once slated for a new building but due to the elimination of the redevelopment agency I am not sure that is still in the cards. We are housed in a portable building so expansion options seem unlikely but maybe they will figure out some kind of magic reconfigurations that will give us extra space.
The story hour theme this week is farms so look for any J picture books about farms in a stack above my desk and take anything you might need to fulfill the patron's wishes.
Enjoy these last glorious days of HOT summer!
Cappy Dick
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