Roselle Public Library - part 2

And we're back to the Roselle Public Library. Today we're looking at their shelves. Everyone displays books differently. Some use shorter shelves and display books on top. Some use displays on the ends of aisles, either mounted on the wall or on an end case in front of the aisle, but Roselle has shelves tipped sideways, spread through the collection like this one, with books displayed right there by others like it. It's helpful -- I found the 741.5 books immediately thanks to this.

 And I had no trouble finding Chilton manuals because they still have a lot -- eight shelves worth!

They still have too encyclopedia sets -- and my two favorite general encyclopedias, no less.

Remember that this is a small library, so computer labs are out of the question. They have their computers along out-of-the-way wallspace, not unlike how it once was at my old library. And there is the second public copier.

I was surprised to see a VHS-to-DVD transfer machine just sitting out on a table like this. When I last used one of these machines, it was to transfer my library's VHS collection from School District U-46 to DVD, but most people would likely be transferring personal VHS tapes and, if it was me, I would prefer a private room for that.

Now this is where much of the YA collection wound up during construction. Some of it is still behind that barrier wall (see last post!), but these books were moved to the top of the large print section (the sign says foreign language, but that is on the aisle behind these).

I think it was rather clever to use the tops of the shelving units. I had actually wanted to do the same thing, only permanently, when I had to move the Illinois collection to shorter shelving units at my last library.

I don't have any photos directly showing the foreign language collection, so I'll just mention here that they have a surprisingly large Polish collection.

Behind these nondescript doors are three of the library's private study rooms. The rooms are as spartan as they look from here.

An issue of spacing was solved by the decision not putting cases out on display for their video game collection. Instead, these cards were made that you can browse through. Then you take the card to a public desk and trade it for the game.

This is the one big conference-study room; the biggest room you can book without using one of the large meeting rooms by the front entrance. Again, very spartan.

At first I thought that object on the table was an alarm clock, but it's actually an outlet for plugging in devices.

It's interesting that the room's one decoration is a "Read" poster. I used to see these all over libraries, but not at most of the ones I've been to lately. Either this was a fad that ran its course or simple wear and tear has done away with most of the "Read" posters.