“Don’t Call it a Slam”
That’s just one of the great tips in today’s Shelf Awareness on running a poetry slam. Jenn Northington, events manager for the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City says that when she came up with...
View ArticleClever Marketing
It seems that a smart marketer at Workman offered the nation’s most well-known technophobe a special one-on-one session with the author of their new book, “Is This Thing On?” : A Computer Handbook for...
View ArticleLink of the Week
Collection development is not all buying. Time to weed and support teen craft programming! Check out “How To Make a purse out of a stack of old books.”
View ArticleWords to Live By
Great quote in today’s Shelf Awareness: The first rule is you never tell a customer we don’t have something until you’ve asked two other people . . . And the other thing is, don’t be an ‘over there’...
View ArticleSteal This for Your Next Speech
A good laugh to begin a VERY hectic week (thanks to Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle for spotting this!) Please excuse the intro from Ad Age. Why do people think they have to explain a joke?
View ArticleEveryone’s a ‘Knucklehead’
Our EarlyWord Kids contributor, Lisa Von Drasek, has been writing here about her enthusiasm for Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka. This Sunday, she shared that enthusiasm with the broader world, in the NYT...
View ArticleBookseller Uses Twitter for Buying
What can a bookseller do if he’s not prepared for a visit from a sales rep? He can go to Twitter and tweat his bookseller buddies to find out what they’re buying! Arsen Kashkashian, is the head book...
View Article‘Little Bee’ Bookseller Video
We did a “Heavy Reserve Alert” for Little Bee last week. Since then, it has appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle and Northern California Independent bestseller lists, perhaps because of this video...
View ArticleNo More Lame Library Videos
You may have seen the Old Spice Guy video. Now, he has competition, from a library promo video. Earlier, the Old Spice Guy tried his hand at promoting libraries. Nice try, but we’d rather look at the...
View ArticleWhat’s Being Bought Where
This is a little scary — the UK-based online bookstore, BookDepository.com features a live map on their site of orders being placed (thanks, to today’s Shelf Awareness for pointing out the story in The...
View ArticleGuilty Pleasures
Here’s an idea for a book display — “Guilty Pleasures.” NPR beat us to it, with their “My Guilty Pleasure” series, in which writers talk about “the books they love but are embarrassed to be seen...
View ArticleNo, But I Read the Book
The entertainment news site BuzzSugar just posted a Winter Reading List: 15 Books to Read Before They’re on the Big Screen slideshow, useful for real and virtual book displays. One caution, however,...
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
We wish we had gotten it together to create a fun holiday greeting. We didn’t, so we’ll just steal this one from those creative folks at Chronicle Books (love the use of the company logo and the...
View ArticleHelp Baz Make THE GREAT GATSBY
Director Baz Luhrmann has been studying up for his adaptation of The Great Gatsby and is inviting the public to be part of the process. Earlier this month, he told Entertainment Weekly, Having spent at...
View ArticleSampling the Hugo Nominees
Here’s an idea to steal for your library Web site. GalleyCat has created a “mixtape” of the Hugo Award Nominees, such as the story Amaryllis, available in full on the Lightspeed site. It’s a great way...
View ArticleKansas City’s “Publitzer Prize”
Kansas City librarians used the lack of a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as an opportunity to create the “Publitzer Prize for Fiction” (the play on the name indicates that the public chooses this prize)....
View ArticleRA Flow Chart
Teach.com has created a clever “Summer Reading Flow Chart” to encourage high school students to read this summer. The choices may be a bit didactic (that word “Should” in the headline is telling), but...
View Article@Bookblrb
Those clever young ‘uns, Bill Barnes and Gene Ambum, over at the library-based comic, Unshelved have started something that may catch on — @bookblrb, tweet-sized blurbs for some of their favorite...
View ArticleOprah — Audios Better Than Books
If you’re searching for ideas for your library blogs, here’s one to steal from Oprah.com, a feature on seven “Audiobooks That Sound Better Than the Printed Versions.” Among the narrators spotlighted...
View ArticleBingo! for Seattle Public Library
Remember when Summer Reading at the library meant you got to move your die-cut hot air balloon up the wall towards the craft paper clouds? Things have changed. This summer The Seattle Public Library...
View ArticleNYPL Debuts Staff Picks Tool
The New York Public Library is offering a new take on staff picks, a browse tool that combines the readers’ advisory features of appeal with the sort features of NPR’s Book Concierge. Every month the...
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