Week 15 Prompt
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. The first thing that popped into my mind was displays. Our fiction collection is broken into two papers fiction and paperbacks (mass-market paperbacks, specifically). After rearranging the collections and the shelves that house them, we were left with more short shelves than we knew what to do with. I suggested that since they were right in front of the fiction and paperback collections we make them displays dedicated to those collections. The theme of the displays rotates month to month, and right now the fiction display is "Yellow, is it me you're looking for?" which is chalked full of books with yellow covers. The paperback display on the paperback display is showing off regency r...
