Week 15 Prompt Response
What do you think are the best ways to market your library's fiction collection? Name and describe three ways you do or would like to market your library or your future library's fiction. These can be tools, programs, services, displays - anything that you see as getting the word out. I've worked in larger locations than my current branch where we had many options for creative displays. With a smaller space it is a challenge to be creative and to try to keep space from being too cluttered. I have a display rack that holds approximately 20 books - per side (depending on the size of the books). Usually we share this space and have fiction on one side and a related nonfiction topic on the other. At some times during the year we will have themed displays. Last summer we had fiction books on display by local authors. At other times we will use a theme throughout the fiction section with our outward facing books on the shelves and bookends. When movies come out that have a ti...
