{"id":3144,"date":"2009-04-28T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2009-04-24T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:53:46","slug":"dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Judge a Book by It’s Cover — On Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to give\u00a0 credit where credit is due; this idea was posted on a list serve by Glenda Mulder from Laurens (Iowa) Public Library.\u00a0 Thanks for sharing Glenda!<\/p>\n

\"susan-boyle\"Given the You-Tube popularity of the Britain’s Got Talent segment, I thought I’d share the idea with you as well.\u00a0 (If you’re one of the few who hasn’t seen this video clip<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> of Susan Boyle yet, drop everything and do so now.\u00a0 It will make your day and let you look at life in a whole new way!)<\/p>\n

As I was pulling items for this display, I realized (to my dismay) that I, too, am guilty of judging a book by it’s cover.\u00a0 Since our selectors do a top-notch job of weeding, I thought there might be slim pickins.\u00a0 Instead, what I discovered was a wonderful wealth of the old classics — books like Gone With the Wind <\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Margaret Mitchell and James Joyce’s Ulysses<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark<\/strong><\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0 These books date back to the days when well-loved copies were sent to be rebound — not that we don’t do that anymore, just not as much!\u00a0 Most of them have plain covers, with no pictures or glossy photographs or even the title!\u00a0 But open them up and the magic is still inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to give\u00a0 credit where credit is due; this idea was posted on a list serve by Glenda Mulder from Laurens (Iowa) Public Library.\u00a0 Thanks for sharing Glenda! Given the You-Tube popularity of the Britain’s Got Talent segment, I thought I’d share the idea with you as well.\u00a0 (If[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[578,577],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-library-displays","tag-good-books","tag-susan-boyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-OI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}