Top 10: RA Posters

Here’s how a booklist works:
1)  You grab your list of books and read through to see if there are any titles you want.
2)  You go to the PAC and search to see if the title is available (or go to the shelf).
3)  Of course the title you want is checked out so you place a hold and still have to find a title to read today.

There is a lot of effort and time spent using booklists for what ends up more often than not in an unsatisfying patron experience.  Your patron still walks out empty handed and having to wait for the books that you just got them excited about with your brief annotation.

In comparison, if you do book displays the experience goes like this:
1)  You walk up to a display of books on a certain theme – let’s say zombies.
2)  You pick up the book to read the back and see if you want to read it.
3)  You check out the book and leave a satisfied customer.

However, staff and parents sometimes want to know titles to recommend to teens so I came up with a great compromise that combined both RA materials and face out book displays AND created a way for me to make my teen area attractive and fun – the RA poster.  Granted, I didn’t invent the RA poster.  But since my budget doesn’t allow for me to purchase multiple posters, I started creating my own, which I often share here for free.  One of the questions I frequently get asked is how I create my RA posters.  I use a variety of apps (Instagram, Wordfoto, Diptic) and programs (Gimp, Microsoft Publisher, Wordle) to create the posters (and bookmarks and memes).

Here are my 10 fave to date . . .

You can download this poster at http://www.box.net/shared/azsha15dvs

You can download this poster at http://www.box.net/shared/a1hfi23pue

You can download the file at http://www.box.net/shared/p8o2qc10ebs93tt1d6jt

You can download the file at http://www.box.net/shared/o0tlv0qm3pbgbpmm1t2o

This poster can be downloaded at http://www.box.com/s/pfga8bnk0mzdmf5ke2o4

You can download the file at http://www.box.net/shared/2o6px9kmlniaso30sgot

You can download the poster at http://www.box.com/s/duxk17uo59eveyip5ut1

You can download this poster at http://www.box.net/shared/bscznkszvj

You can download the file at http://www.box.net/shared/j4efx2r81pet4t6033ny

You can download this poster at http://www.box.com/s/493c1c30c7ccc21db28f

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