Raising Community Awareness with a Library Display

Information is an essential resource for both social and economic development. Information is accessed from books in the library, social media sites, newspapers, and other sites depending on an individual preference. Community libraries satisfy people’s needs by providing necessary information when needed. This contributes significantly to social-economic growth and community awareness as people get enriched with data. Libraries have a library display that collects library materials and resources displayed in a particular time with different captions to attract a leader. These library resources are essential to students and other members of society. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss how to raise community awareness using a library display and its importance to the Nova campus community.

Library displays offer their users opportunities to access useful information for educational materials and recreation purposes. Library displays aim at satisfying people’s informational needs, interests and enlightening all people in the community. Library displays include; lectures, exhibits, arts, wellness programs, presentations, convections, and book clubs, among others. These library displays take place onsite at the library, offsite in other locations, and online. Library workers and other volunteers offer services at the library. Library displays and programs utilize their workers to create community awareness, provide services and facilities and provide access to information and information materials. Additionally, library workers apply their expertise to educate communities on selecting topics, help the interested parties create display slides using graphics, and help their users choose the best library resource to satisfy their needs. Despite their usefulness, they are governed by rules and regulations.

 Specific written policies govern the use of library displays. All library displays should be fair and well-adjusted. At no point should library display promote businesses, organizations or endorse any political candidate or party. Instead, they aim to promote community awareness by allowing the masses to acquire information to boost their knowledge and settle their needs.

 Library displays are significant in creating community awareness and social development. Firstly, library displays create and improve community awareness by providing educational support. Learners visit the library to acquire materials and resources for their school work. Library displays allow learners to read from different books and articles that help them do their assignments and increase their overall knowledge.

 Besides education, library displays offer the community opportunities to acquire community literacy. Libraries displays have computer rooms where people visit and learn about computer programs useful for various purposes. For example, learners use computers to customize and fill job application forms available online. Moreover, libraries offer computer training programs to equip community members with computer skills, thus eradicating computer illiteracy. Consequently, library displays provide newspapers to the community. By reading the newspapers, people learn about the latest happenings in countries and beyond, thus increasing their literacy.

Library displays are essential to different communities. They have served the needs of many communities, including the Nova campus community. Being the largest community college in the USA, NOVA College should incorporate library displays into the institution.  Library displays will assist students in the NOVA campus to access resources for their assignments. The campus should create library displays that will display a collection of books required by students and other NOVA community members. The community learns about material available at the library display and revisits them whenever they need information.

Library displays will also educate the NOVA community about a specific topic. Library displays will offer a platform for the campus to teach the community about a particular subject like Antivirus awareness. Library displays will allow the creation of slides, canvas, PowerPoint, and graphics, which will ease understanding of the topic. Once the displays are ready, they are posted on the university library’s Instagram for accessibility. Students within the campus branches will access through the Instagram account and learn.

Additionally, library displays will support sharing news and information from one Nova campus branch to another. Students and other staff members can learn what is going on at the NOVA campus online without onsite visitation. Lecturers can also coordinate online classes from the library and issue instructions without visiting each university branch. This makes learning more comfortable and accessible. Therefore, library displays are significant to the NOVA community.

Annotated Bibliography

  Phillips, Susan P. Great Displays for Your Library Step by Step. McFarland & Co., 2008.

This book provides useful tools for designing library spaces using visual statements. It also explains how to customize library displays to fit the available space.

 Joiner, Ida Arlene. Emerging Library Technologies. Elsevier Science & Technology, 2018.

Emerging library technologies address different audiences like a librarian, teachers, and students, among others interested in learning different library technologies like artificial intelligence. It also describes the different roles of the libraries.

 Frederick, Donna E. Managing EBook Metadata in Academic Libraries Elsevier Science & Technology, 2015.

This book encourages students to use library exhibits to create slides and PowerPoint to ease learning. This book will be used by NOVA campus students when designing different slides for their assignments.

 Mckeown, Anthony. Overcoming Information Poverty. Elsevier Science & Technology, 2016.

This book investigates information poverty and provides a solution for overcoming information poverty.

  Springer, Anna-Sophie, and Etienne Turpin. Fantasies of the Library. Revised, second edition., The MIT Press, 2016.

This book provides new experiences of a library to a learner. A library is seen as a book storage and a source of generating ideas.