A somewhat similar question lies behind seemingly unrelated issues. When are billboards too much? How about neon lights on business signs? How about the design and location of public buildings like museums, schools, and libraries? How about directional signs and the like?
I noted directional signs pointing to local public libraries in a couple of last week's posts (see Personal verification and purely personal). York does not have comparable directional signs for our library.
And within the library -- What is the overall visual impression? What gets the most prominent place? What do we do to call attention to segments of the collection? How does the design & layout of the building impact? What do we "show off" and why?
Kilgore Memorial Library is fortunate to have staff with the skills and inclination to gather library materials and put them into seasonal and topical displays. This year we are fortunate to have a staff member with artistic skill to produce striking temporary signs. Hooray Bridget! We are fortunate to have Ken Bedient working in Friends of the Library to assemble displays for the Hall Gallery and the Elmer Baker Memorial Display Case. We are fortunate to have sufficient space to allow for these things.
See these snapshots for some recent images from Kilgore Memorial Library.
The remainder of this blog entry documents stages of a learning process to accomplish a goal for today -- illustrate a post.
(Nov. 5, 2008) P.S.1 Reflecting on the lessons in L2NE -- this post is supposed to include snapshots of the images cited, rather than a link to the FLICKR set containing them. I have not found the right combination of shortcuts and html to make it work -- yet.
(Nov. 5, 2008) P.S.2 In keeping with the spirit of L2NE, IM'd with Allana to see what I was doing wrong. I was trying to copy the wrong FLICKR "permalink" I guess. So some snapshots appear below. I'm also experimenting with imbedding .html in blog postings.
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(Nov. 5, 2008) P.S. 3. Attached a "snapshot of self in a mirror" photo to the blog.
(Nov. 6, 2008) P.S. 4. Generated a more "feature rich" "snapshot of self in a mirror" for the photo in "who writes this".
