Week 15 Prompt: Marketing for Fiction
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. 1) Programs and Displays In the Library One way to market the fiction collection is to host a monthly book club featuring a different fiction item from the collection each month. Not only are book clubs an engaging way to discover new books, it would be a great way to boost check-outs of newer or less popular items in our collection. Another way to promote books within the library is to feature displays and change them up regularly. Displays can be a fun way to showcase different genres, themes, authors, recent publications; the possibilities are endless, and a staff member who has a creative side could have fun putting the displays together. 2) Social Media Social media is the
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