[LM_NET] Target: English-Spanish Library Signage

[Kristin Marley <krismarley@GMAIL.COM>]

All year I've been on the lookout for English-Spanish Library Signage but
can't find anything for purchase. My school is International Baccalaureate
and the bilingual signage is a requirement. I thought I'd send a note to
LM_NET as a final attempt to find something before I begin to make the signs
myself.

I'm pretty sure there isn't anything out there... In case someone has seen
something, please let me know! Highsmith, if you're listening... please
design something! :)

Many thanks,

Kristin Marley
Media Specialist
Center for Inquiry - Indianapolis Public Schools
marleyk@ips.k12.in.us

 ps: Julia - Thank you for compiling the great hit on Elem. Library Signage!


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:42 AM, JULIA KESSLER <JKESSLER@acsdny.org> wrote:

>
> Dear Netters, A while ago, I asked for suggestions for spiffy
> professional-looking signs for my elementary library.  I received many
> wonderful suggestions.  It has taken a long time, but finally, here is the
> hit I promised.  I especially love the suggestion of Jan Brett's website
> with it's Dewey posters.  This is part 1.
>
>
> Try DEMCO.com they have all different types of signage. Colorful foam,
> plastic acrylic etc,  by individual letter or by signs
>
>
>
> I created some signs for my library using Microsoft's Publisher and then I
> had them laminated and put them in acrylic standing frames that I bought in
> Staples for about 7 dollars each.  While the clipart on Publisher is kind of
> drab especially for elementary school I used free clip art from the web.  I
> did Dewey posters because I didn't like the ones that were available in the
> catalogs.
>
>
>
> I use colorful cardboard magazine boxes with signs that have clip art on
> them.  You can place old magazines or bricks in the boxes so they do not
> move.  The signs are very helpful.  www.libraryskills.com <
> https://mail.acsdny.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.libraryskills.com>
>  has the signs - purchased the cardboard holders from Highsmith
>
>
>
> I have been looking into a company called LibrarySkills.com, which
> specializes in library signage. They have a variety of products
> and seem to customize to what your media center needs.
>
> Personally, for the cost, if you have access to a color printer, I would
> make them myself following a template similar to the ones shown on the page.
> The ones I purchased I've attached to magazine file boxes. They do the
> job,but I was slightly disappointed in them (again, for the price--if they
> were a little less expensive they would have been more worthwhile to
> purchase.)
>
> I did do that for my fiction section, printing letters one per page and
> wrapping the paper around magazine file boxes. Unlaminated, they've lasted
> me three years so far and are easily replaceable if someone does
> accidentally or intentionally rip one. I've had one student write on a few
> of them but I found out who it was and made him come in and erase them since
> he used pencil.
>
>
>
> I took old magazine holders (the plastic boxes) and turned them backward
> on the shelf and attached the laminated sign to them. Works beautifully!
>
>
>
>
>
> This isn't exactly what you are looking for and, who knows, your shelves
> might be jammed and you have no room, but what I have done is this: I have a
> shelf (way higher than elementary kids can reach) and on it I have my son's
> abandoned dinosaurs over, guess what, the dinosaur books.  A poster of the
> Earth as seen from space over the 520s, animals jammed up together a la the
> closet scene in ET over the animal books, fairy / folk tale figures over the
> 398s, etc.  I do not have "brain storm" items over each and every one -- I
> alternate between appropriate posters and appropriate "things."  In many
> cases you can't put something up for every single Dewey number, but it seems
> to help folks out.
>
>
>
> I made signs, laminated them and displayed them at the top of the
> stacks.  Colorful paper, fun fonts, and I haven't had any get messed up.
>  I also put laminated signs under the fic and e sections, to note call
> number for that shelf.  No problems so far.  There are also signs on the
> janbrett.com site, look under library.
>
>
>
> I really like the products from LibrarySkills.com.  Their products are a
> bit expensive but they are colorful and fun.  The shelf labeling also color
> codes the subjects which really helps me when I'm stuck at the desk during
> checkout - then I can tell students the book is in the 500s and the shelf
> label is red.
>
>
>
> The only problem I've found is that some words are English spelling, i.e.
> aeroplane, but as we are an ESL/ELL school I just explain the spelling and
> go on.
>
>
>
> The best idea that I've come up from a colleague is to order custom street
> signs.
>
>
>
> I don't use actual signage. I put actual items on the shelves.  For
> example, on my math shelf books, I have a set or two of flash cards.  On the
> plant shelf, I have an artificial plant.  For the solar system, I have a
> small model of the solar system, stuffed animals....etc.  I don't put
> anything really worth stealing or too expensive.
>
>
>
> This is NOT a professional looking idea but in elementary school, I used
> to put toys (stuffed and otherwise) on the pertinent shelving areas--a
> stuffed dinosaur in the 567s, animals, plastic cake in the cookbooks, etc.
>  I never had anything go missing and it was easy to say go find the
> dinosaur, etc.  Another idea (slightly more professional) that I have seen
> is to create sign language pictures for the different subjects, laminate
> them, and put them in the appropriate places.  Something different
> anyway....
>
>
> Julia Boone Kessler
> Librarian
> West Road Intermediate School
> 181 West Road
> Pleasant Valley, NY 12569
> jkessler@acsdny.org
>
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Kristin Marley
402 N. Meridian St. #607
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317-670-8661
krismarley@gmail.com

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