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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. Three ways to  market  library fiction: 1. Good Old Fashioned Displays The most basic, old school low tech way to market a fiction collection is a display that invites the eye and prompts browsing. This can be a timely holiday display, a themed display centered around a topic, or a display organized like a bookstore, with outward facing books and signage. One of the pleasures of visiting a library is the serendipity factor of discovery. Displays facilitate serendipity.  One note on this, display cases that require a library staff member to unlock the case to get a book out for a patron are not browsing friendly!  (I create...

"How have reading and books changed since you were a child, for you specifically?" Reflecting on Reading and Me Me Me: Eugen Spiro During my childhood reading was an escape and a refuge and a venue for learning, and eventually an act of identity creation. In elementary school, I read voraciously about dinosaurs and went to church on Sundays with my grandfather and read the Bible. Later, in about third grade, I identified conflicting narratives and took the first steps to be an atheist. (Science won, but I still love a good story.) In fifth grade, I read  A Wrinkle in Time  and identified with Meg when I was bullied and lost my father to emphysema.  Found on Pinterest In the 90’s, I read Christopher Hitchens and learned how to view the world oppositionally and critically, to be assertive and confident to express opinions contradictory to received thought, to reject authority and mock sacred cows. (Like Mother Theresa, what a bish!) I got s...