商品簡介
The lottery it is not, but a contest staged by a library can have even more impact than a measly million dollars or two on both juvenile and adult readers. The authors, both practitioners in the public library system in Lexington, Kentucky, give librarians (academic, public or school) a range of ideas to generate interest, showcase services, and entertain while educating. They show how to select the contest planner and develop community partnerships, establish goals and set budgets, define the contest type and audience, create a theme, determine the small print (such as eligibility and rules), create a schedule, chose judges and their selection criteria, promote the contest and assess the results. They provide four model contests, each of which is bound to get attention from patrons and the local press (the one requiring entrants to make a costume from duct tape is particularly fetching). Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)