It is exciting to watch borrowers becoming involved with my initiatives, such as the recommendations on the noticeboard. I get a real feeling of success when someone picks a book of the day I have chosen or a display empties quickly.

One reader who was choosing something from a promotion I did said to me: ''It makes you try something different . . . it really works when there are so many books you don't know where to start.''

I'm much more confident and much more competitive about how I present things in the library now. For example I sometimes set myself a challenge to see how quickly I can get the book of the day to go out, or to rescue a good book that's not been out for a while.

In my library we use more paperbacks in displays and more thought is going into how the returned today section is managed rather than it just being used as a place to leave things.