Pictures are annoying. Just sayin'

• look at some online library catalogues - school, (if possible), TAFE, university, public and some quirky special libraries (if possible) which deal in fiction such as the Atheneum Library to see what you can find out about the arrangement of their literary works on the shelves and the the subject headings they use

Athenaeum Library
The Athenaeum Library have a wide variety of fiction categories. These categories are: Adventure and thrillers, detective fiction, general fiction, graphic novels, historical fiction, historical romantic fiction, romantic fiction, science fiction, short stories, and young adult.
Some of the subject headings that it uses are: fantasy fiction, teen science fiction, secrecy—fiction, detective and mystery stories, eccentrics and eccentricities—fiction, private secretaries—fiction, and Italy.

Cranbourne Secondary College
The library at Cranbourne Secondary College separates their fiction collection into five groups: general fiction, senior fiction, quick reads, graphic novels, and picture books.
Some of the subject headings that it uses are: fantasy fiction, science fiction, and animals.

Casey-Cardinia Library
Casey-Cardinia Libraries generally split their fiction collection into young adult, general fiction, romantic fiction, science fiction, and children’s fiction.
Some of the subject headings that it uses are: adventure stories, love stories, supernatural fiction, thriller fiction, and humorous stories.

• Find some pictures (Google iImages might be a good place to start) of shelving arrangements in libraries and shelving arrangements in bookshops - how do they differ
Libraries

Bookstores

Differences
Library shelving is much more orderly than bookshops, with everything neat and lined up, whereas bookshops are a bit more flexible with their shelving, with books on display, and shelves spread around a bit more randomly.

• find isome pictures on signage practices in libraries especially school and public libraries and some information or pictures on the use of special stickers or lables on book spines

• Do some research on the use of genre arrangment in libraries or bookshops" Does genre arrangment encourgae an interest in borrowing or buying fiction?
Most of the libraries that I’ve been too haven’t separated the books by genre. Cranbourne Secondary College does put genre stickers on their books, but they’re still shelved with the rest of whichever collection they belong to, be it fiction, quick reads, or graphic novels.
Bookstores on the other hand generally organise their books by genre, and in my opinion it works pretty well. It makes it easier to find books that may interest you if you want to read books of a certain genre.

Reading promotion thingies; or, I should just start numbering these by weeks or something instead of coming up with Fall Out Boy-esque titles

• Find some examples of  the promotion of reading by different organisations - libraries, schools, bookshops, book councils, associations etc.

Scholastic book fairs:

http://www.scholastic.com.au/schools/bookfairs/

Premier’s Reading Challenge:

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/prc/

Hampton Park Library:

Thursday, 12 September
2.00-3.30 pm

Love2Read Reading Hour:

http://www.love2read.org.au/readinghour.cfm

Get Reading!:

http://www.getreading.com.au/events/

·         Has there been any research done on the success of any promotional activities or programmes? (perhaps an article or two in some scholarly journals)

Scholastic:

Reading for pleasure: A research overview - http://www.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/i/Reading_for_pleasure.pdf

The International Board on Books for Young People:

School Libraries and Reading Promotion - http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=726

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions:

Using research to promote literacy and reading in libraries: Guidelines for librarians - http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-professional-reports-125