Showing posts with label book promotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book promotion. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Digital Frames for Book Promotion

I want to do a better job of promoting/advertising new books next year.  One way I thought of doing that is to purchase a 12" digital frame.  For each title, I would make a jpeg Power Point slide with an image of the book cover and a blurb about the book, then upload those to the frame.  It will be on display at the circ desk, with a running slide show of what is new in the library.

There are infinite variations on the idea---the blurb could be student generated quotations for book reviews; you can add pictures of students and library events, display images of student art, etc.

Ideally, I'd like to do this on a larger monitor, but that's for my second year, I think.  For the first year, while I figure out school dynamics, this seems like a good start.

Your thoughts?