HIT:Shelf signs

[H Rivlin <hrivlin@BYRAMHILLS.ORG>]

Thanks to all of you who responded. As I feared, librarians must add
sign making to their list of tasks. At least we can decide what the
signs say! Here are the responses:
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Use two strips to hold the numbers with a "TO" in-between the two
numbers. You can print the numbers on card stock with your computer, cut
and slide into the strips.
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The most marvelous thing in the library world is a Brother P-Touch label
maker.  Those labels are beautiful, removable, replaceable, crisp,
professional looking, and they can say anything you need them to say,
and you can read them from across the room.  A Brother P-Touch makes 1/2
inch, 3/4 inch, or 1 inch tapes.  You'll be ever so happy you tried it.
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I, too have struggled with this issue.  I just make my own signs.  I
have used several types.  Since I have an elementary library, I can make
signs using paper and construction paper  and laminate them.  They last
several years, and by then the collection has shifted and I need to redo
them anyway.  Once I used a die cut shape as a decoration, this time I
bought the paper you can find at office stores that is decorated--the
kind for the laser printer or copy machine.  The one I chose has a
school type border,
with books, a chalkboard and the abc's or something on that order.  I
chose a nice font, put the number ranges on it, added some subjects and
printed them out.  Then  I mounted them on construction paper, laminated
them and attached them to the ends of the shelves.  Example:
                    Nonfiction
                      800-899

                        Poetry
                       Literature
                        Jokes and Riddles

(all centered, of course...)

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I have found the easiest and cheapest way is to make my own to meet my
needs using Publisher and a laminator.  Then when I do stocktake, if
things get moved then it is not a big deal to change things or make new
signs.

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I am a new media specialist in a brand new library. I have shelving, 40"
high Ibelieve, and also some tall stacks. I made my own signs on the
computer, just for the reasons you listed.  I put them in double sided
acrylic sign holders, or single, depending on where I needed them. The
signs sit on top of the shelves and look very nice, plus I can change
them when I need to. A saleman from Baker and Taylor was in my library
today and he mentioned that he really liked them.  I will try and attach
a sample to this email so you can see what I did. Hope this helps you.

Stacey Goolsby
Library Media Specialist
Hamilton High School
Hamilton, MI
sgoolsby@remc7.k12.mi.us

Note: please contact Stacey directly if you want to see samples of her
signs. HR

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Your Demco or other library supplier will be able to help you find just
the right kind of signage and at reasonable prices. (No I don't work for
them but have used them often. They are online, also :
http://www.demco.com/  )  Most libraries have some sort of sign holder
that can accommodate a changing range of numbers.  With all the great
fonts available on computers, as well as other sign making machines, it
should be easy to keep up with any changes.  At the college where I
worked last, we used sets of vinyl numbers, but also had our AV
department use the letter cutter machine to do larger numbers and
letters.
At my present library, I don't have ends to my stacks = they line the
walls, so I must use sign holders that can be attached to shelf edges.
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 Holly Rivlin, Library Media Specialist
Wampus School, Armonk, NY
hrivlin@byramhills.org

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