Library Contests: A How-To-Do-It Manual

By Kathleen R.T. Imhoff and Ruthie Maslin

Contests are a great vehicle for showcasing your library's services, introducing new programs, raising funds, attracting new groups of patrons, and boasting your community commitment. This new how-to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555705596
• ISBN13: 9781555705596
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.7"

Customer Reviews

Good book for those doing any contest

Good book to help those who are creating their own contest, not just a library contest. Good ideas and suggestions on budget, publicity, and more.

A very highly recommended reference

Contests are an excellent way to engage their communities, schools, and patrons with what libraries have to offer by way of services and facilities. A superbly organized and presented instruction guidebook, "Library Contests: A How-To-Do-It Manual" provides school and community librarians with step-by-step instructions through all the stages of planning, promoting, budgeting, and running a contest. The essential steps for contest development begin with the selection of a contest planner and choosing a judge, to promoting the contest, defining its theme, defining eligibility criteria for contest participants, and evaluating contest success. Offering a wealth of practical advice, tips, tricks and techniques for mounting an effective contest, librarians are provided with four real-world examples: Earth Day Coloring Contest; Guess the Number of Bricks in the New Library Contest; Create a Clothing Accessory from Duct Tape Contest; and One Book, One City Essay Contest. A very highly recommended reference for Library Science collections, "Library Contests" is an impressive compilation of novel and tested ideas for every category of library whether their contest is to be local, regional, statewide, or even national in scope.