What Makes Your Specialty Most Alive?
Display Your Enthusiasm!
As we draw closer to returning to the renovated Thompson Library, each OSUL Subject Librarian, and each OSUL Operational Department and Service Point has an opportunity to present their best to our patrons and we have venues created as part of the design of the building that present opportunities for broadcasting who you are and what empassions you about your work.
The Collection Awareness Unit is here to help you,
Celebrate the work that you do!
An example of a successfully established display can be found the
Greek and Roman Classics Display
that was mounted in Sullivant Hall, Room 286A in the Autumn Quarter of 2007. In this display we were able to feature the Loeb, Oxford and Teubner Classical Libraries Holdings in the Ohio State Univeristy Libraries and Squeezes of Greek & Roman Monumental Inscriptions from the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies. The Following Quarter we presented an equally successful display of
Winter Sports,
featuring the Klondike Novels of Jack London, and for the Winter and Spring Quarters of 2009, we have an African American Firsts in Politics Display.
These displays encompass entire rooms, whereas in the Thompson Library, we will (for the present) be limited to display cases and shelving units. Close examples of smaller displays can be seen in two we have developed in collaboration with Danny Dotson in the Science and Engineering Library:
What Do You Know About ___?
What Do You Know About ___? 2
As we experiment with our ideas, we will certainly find greater opportunities to expand our creativity and our outreach to the OSU Community.
In Thompson there are scheduled to be 14 display case and 4 open shelving venues that will be ready for you to use to reach out to your constituents. The following chart shows, floor by floor, what we have available for you to use to brag about what you do! The column on the left has links to the floor plans where we have display venues, and the row across the top shows what sorts of venue we have on each of these floors. We also have a Microsoft Word document, THO Display Venues, that may be of help in understanding how things are arranged in each area and our ideas about how we can use these opportunities.
For the open shelving we have revised our original plans and decided that the 84 in high open shelving will house new books in call number order to be rotated each quarter. Subject Librarians are encouraged to suggest new books to be displayed on these shelves, otherwise, Collection Awareness will make the selections from lists of new acquisitions.
The current schedule (beginning in Autumn 2009) can be found in the Display Scheduling Reservation List.
Our Time line for setting everything in place for the opening of the renovated Thompson Library can be found in a document entitled THO Time Line.
Scheduling, suggestions and requests can be arranged through our Display Scheduling form.
 Floor |
84 in High Open Shelves |
 42 in High Open Shelves |
 Glass Display Case, 72w, 38h, 20d |
Glass Display Case, 72w, 77h, 17d |
 Antique Oak Display Cases |
 Proximity |
| 1 | 1 full height display case |
See Floor Plan Current Periodicals, Ready Reference |
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| 2 |
2 wall units, 3 sections ea, 18 shelves 54 Shelf feet | 4 half height display cases | 2 full height display cases |
See Floor Plan Bound Journals |
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| 3 |
2 free standing dbl side units, 4 sections on a side, 112 shelves, 336 shelf feet |
1 wall unit, 3 sections, 9 shelves 27 Shelf feet |
See Floor Plan International Collection |
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| 6 | 1 full height display case |
See Floor Plan Call #'s GN-GV, H |
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| 8 | 1 full height display case |
See Floor Plan Call #'s PG-PN |
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| 10 | 1 full height display case |
See Floor Plan Call #'s PT-PZ, Q,R,S,T,U,V,Z |
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| 11 | 4 Antique Oak vitrine display cases |
See Floor Plan Study Area, Meeting Space, & A Great View |
