Comments on: Example of Direct Advertising http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/01/26/example-of-direct-advertising/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:54:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/01/26/example-of-direct-advertising/#comment-1381 Brian Herzog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:00:23 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=890#comment-1381 @Chris: we find tons of bookmarks, and usually take them out of books and leave them in a little bin at the desk for people to take and use.

@Winnie: I’ve heard of sponsorship program(me)s like that – it seems logical, just tricky. We also have people who want to donate magazine subscriptions, but with various caveats, and sometimes we just can’t accept their terms. I like your banned bookmarks idea – great for discussions, and I wonder if the bookmarks could drive people to comment online about book banning?

]]> By: Tay http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/01/26/example-of-direct-advertising/#comment-1380 Tay Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:12:20 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=890#comment-1380 LOL, I would probably do that too. I used to leave photo copies of my book covers in hotels with the tip when I left. Sometimes I’d even stick them in the drawer where the bible and directories were. I never thought about going to the library just to stick them in there.

Gosh, somebody must have had a lot of time on their hands to get to so many books.

]]> By: Winnie http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/01/26/example-of-direct-advertising/#comment-1379 Winnie Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:54:55 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=890#comment-1379 We have a sponsorship programme for magazines at our library. Sometimes businesses sponsor related things – the architects who sponsor Old House Journal, for example. But sometimes it’s a surprise – the mechanics who sponsor Organic Gardening is one. We do have final say on what the library orders and just because you want to sponsor Tow Truck Monthly doesn’t mean we’ll order it. And as the designer of bookmarks, flyers, displays and bulletin boards I do try to put things in relevant books but to maintain it is daunting. The most successful one we’ve done is Freedom to Read where I went around the library putting “This is a banned book” book marks in books from my list. It started great discussions, especially Beatrix Potter’s “Peter Rabbit” which was banned by a London school district for only showing middle class rabbits.

]]> By: Chris http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/01/26/example-of-direct-advertising/#comment-1378 Chris Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:26:07 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=890#comment-1378 Heh, the 613,96′s could just cut out the back couple pages from the Cleveland Scene magazine…

But I have regularly left the LibraryThing.com bookmarks in my books when I send them back to the library. Hope I’m not ticking off one of your counterparts in the CCPL.

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Bookmarks

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