Presented by Michaela Walters L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library michaelaw@eauclaire.lib.wi.us
❖ Our inspiration ❖ Find a hook ❖ Show and tell of what our library offers (Guess the Book, interactive displays) ❖ Making it a reality (the nuts and bolts)
❖ Thinking about classic games and repurposing them ❖ Blogs and websites (BookRiot, BuzzFeed, Pinterest, etc.) ❖ Collaboration ❖ Conferences ❖ Presentations ❖ Webinars
❖ Offer fun games ❖ Make the games challenging but not so challenging it’s extremely hard ❖ Prizes!
❖ Guess the Book games ❖ Interactive displays ❖ Board games and puzzles ❖ Book Bios ❖ Stats: 99 submissions
❖ How it works (four week format) ❖ What the customers gets out of it ❖ FUN!! ❖ The satisfaction of completing a puzzle ❖ $10 Chamber Bucks (funding from the Friends of the Library)
❖ Inspiration: BuzzFeed ❖ Stats: 47 submissions
❖ Inspiration: a co-worker shared an email that she received via a listserv ❖ Stats: 43 submissions
❖ Inspiration: BookRiot ❖ Stats: 82 submissions
❖ Inspiration: Repurposing classic games ❖ Stats: 86 submissions
❖ Inspiration: Repurposing classic games ❖ Stats: 61 submissions
❖ Inspiration: BookRiot ❖ Stats: 21 submissions so far (we are currently in week 2 of 4)
❖ Inspiration: Pinterest
❖ Newsletter blurb ❖ Desk signs ❖ Slider on library website homepage ❖ Social Media posts ❖ Software used: InDesign, Photoshop, canva.com ❖ Images: clipart.com (we subscribe to this site), book covers are used from the MORE catalog or the Wisconsin Digital Library ❖ See notes below for larger list of free stock photo sites
❖ Winter Reading — Curl Up and Read ❖ January-February ❖ SLP — theme varies each summer ❖ June 1-August 15
❖ Grand prizes have included: Kindle Fires and Chamber Bucks. ❖ Other prizes: lap desks, book lights, free books, and donations from local businesses. ❖ Each year the slip has changed (snowflake, mitten, snowman, bunny slipper). They are then cut out and displayed around the desk. ❖ Reviews used for book displays.
❖ Last year there were four ways to win: a prize when you turned in a reading slip, a weekly prize drawing, the grand prize drawings at the end of the program, and a bonus game of 20 Questions. ❖ We had 274 people register for the program.
❖ Most of the above prizes were donated by Eau Claire businesses. Those not donated were purchased using funds provided by the Friends of the Library
How Customers Learned About the Program 2 1 3 Promotional Material in the Library 9 Have Always Participated 9 12 Friends/Family/Word of Mouth 12 Library's Website 101 30 Library Employee Volume One Library's Facebook Library's Newsletter BookBike 95 Other
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