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Your Applications
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Creating
Your Display Plan
If you are planning a new
library, incorporate signage with the plans and budget for interior design and
use of space, especially to mark large areas of the collection or planned uses.
It is not enough to work from the floor plans alone. The height of the windows,
the height of the bookshelves, light switches and air ducts – all impact the
interior design and placement of signage. A full set of blueprints will provide
elevation pages indicating those details.
Work with the scale printed on the blueprint, i.e., 1/4
inch to a foot, to determine size of displays and graphic information.
If you are working in an existing library, you have the
advantage of knowing how it functions, the kinds of directional questions you
get from users, and any unique architectural features or hidden areas that need
particular signage.
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Take photographs to evaluate your
existing signage, preferably digital photos that you can enlarge and print as
worksheets. Make sure that your photographs show what your patrons see as they
move through the library. |
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Are the major areas identified for
them in graphics that are large enough to see? Can they move from general to
specific (from the computer catalog to nonfiction to category to exact shelf)?
Have you minimized unnecessary or redundant signs? Does your signage look
professional?
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Create your own scale using photographs. Take real life
measurements in your facility, and then measure the same spaces in your
photographs to determine the ratio. Using that scale you can experiment with
different sizes of banners, posters, and signs to see how they will work.
If you are unable to reach all measurements (to the
ceiling, for example), you can use your photographic scale to determine that
measurement. Create a simple algebraic formula for ratios, cross multiply, and
divide to determine the unknown.
In any case, the height of the ceiling and its
construction will determine whether it is practical to hang signage overhead. If
there is a security system based on motion detection, any hanging signs must not
move.
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How to Do the Math
Red is the photograph measurement.
Blue is the real-life measurement.
Can I spell out "BIOGRAPHY" with 16" letter
tiles above the windows and below the wood trim?
Create the ratio statement: 3/8" is to 20" as
? is to 16"
Do the math:
3/8" =
?__
20" 16"
3/8 x 16 = 20 ?
48/8 = 20 ?
6 = 20 ?
6/20 = 20/20 ?
.3" = ?
To visualize 16" tiles, place 1/3" squares on
photo.
How much space is below the lights, above the
wood trim?
Again, create the ratio statement: 3/8" is to
20" as 13/16" is to ?
Do the math:
3/8" =
13"/16"
20" ?
3/8 ? = 20 x 13/16
3/8 ? = 260/16
3/8 ? = 16.25
8/3 x 3/8 ? = 16.25 x 8/3
? = 130/3
? = 43.33" |
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How to Contact BiblioBanners.com™
email:
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