[Publib] Signs for books in other langagues

[Jen Waller]

One solution is to use small flags (in conjunction with signs):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenwaller/2845997834/

Good luck.

Jen Waller
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The Information School | University of Washington




On May 4, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Kelly LaBrie wrote:

> At our library, we refer to our collection as the "International  
> Collection", which houses both fiction and non-fiction materials for  
> adult readers in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Urdu and  
> Vietnamese. To make it even more noticeable, we have an inflatable  
> beach ball that looks like a globe hanging from the ceiling just  
> above the aisle where the books are housed. For our smaller signs,  
> individual languages are listed along the side of the aisle in  
> English as well as the native script to make it legible for  
> monolingual and bilingual patrons.
>
> Kelly LaBrie
> Librarian Assistant
> Euless Public Library
> Euless, Texas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Mehta Henderson Hess
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:27 AM
> To: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Publib] Signs for books in other langagues
>
> I'm currently an intern at the UWM Curriculum Library, and am  
> working on a project to make new signs for our collection of books  
> in languages other than English.  We have pulled out the books that  
> are bilingual and those that are exclusively in another language and  
> they are in their own section.  There is currently a sign that says  
> "non-English children's literature," but we are trying to come up  
> with a better way to word this sign.  I do plan to make smaller  
> signs to indicate each language, but the large sign is giving me the  
> most trouble with the wording.  I would greatly appreciate any  
> suggestions of how other libraries indicate their other language  
> collections, or ideas of how I might do this.
>
> Thanks!
> Mehta

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