For this post about book display basics, I am going to talk about how you can tie your digital collection and your physical collection together on a display. There is no reason why they should be kept separately. Not every patron will be familiar with your ebook collection or that you carry books which can be requested or put on hold.
When you create a display inside your building, add QR codes directing patrons to the book if you have it in an eBook collection. You can create a digital display in most eBook platforms and can list read alikes that you have in digital format. Don't forget to put bookmarks in the books advertising the eBook services you have. Include both eBooks and eAudiobooks when you are creating these lists and creating QR codes to the books in your collection. eAudiobooks have become wildly popular.
You can also mirror the subject or theme of the display in the digital collection even if you don't have the same titles. If you set up a display on folk horror, football, or tea parties - find books that match that theme or subject in your eBook/eAudiobook collection. You can put a sign up on your physical display to let your patrons know that there are additional titles available online.
If you have a blog, you can include links to both your catalog and eBook/eAudiobook collection. This will also allow your readers to see that you have titles they will love in several formats. I do encourage you to put large print books in your book displays. However, you can use the merging of the eBook and physical format displays to remind your patrons that any eBook is large print and the print can be as large as you need.
Another passive readers advisory technique that you can use is to put shelf talkers on your shelves near the authors, series, and books that you have in digital format as well. A shelf talker is a card or form that fits inside a plastic holder that hangs from your shelf. Include the URL or a QR code to your digital collection.
