Trading Spaces Media Style

Library Promotion Links

AASL School Library Campaign - graphics and other program promotion ideas

AASL School Library Media Month - tips and suggested activities for celebrating School Library Media Month

Library Lovers Month -created by a Friends of the Library group; includes ideas for drawing the public into the library

Australian Library Promotion Ideas - library promotions ideas from Australia; includes sending ransom notes to collect end of year materials

Marketing Our Libraries On and Off the Internet - contains marketing ideas related to Web content and design and strategic planning; includes formal and informal assessments of the impact that the library has on the school and how to utilize the results of the assessments

Marketing the Library: A Thematic Approach to Reading Promotion - outlines one media specialist's yearlong reading promotion program

Motivational Ideas for Children's Book Week and National Library Week - easy activities to recreate for these celebrations

Reaching New Teachers - suggestions for drawing new teachers into the media center

School Library Media Month Activities -activities; directions for writing a library press release, using tv and radio advertising to promote events and developing district-wide activities

You've Got Mail: Electronic Publications for Schools -an example of a curriculum based on-line newsletter with links for teachers and parents

School-Libraries.net - Look at these sites posted by media specialists throughout the country to get ideas, tips and tricks for creating or improving a media web site