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Presented by Michaela Walters L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library michaelaw@eauclaire.lib.wi.us Our inspiration Find a hook Show and tell of what our library offers (Guess the Book, interactive displays) Making it a reality (the

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Presented by Michaela Walters L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library michaelaw@eauclaire.lib.wi.us

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❖Our inspiration ❖Find a hook ❖Show and tell of what our library offers (Guess the Book, interactive displays) ❖Making it a reality (the nuts and bolts)

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❖Thinking about classic games and repurposing them ❖Blogs and websites (BookRiot, BuzzFeed, Pinterest, etc.) ❖Collaboration

❖Conferences ❖Presentations ❖Webinars

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❖Offer fun games ❖Make the games challenging but not so challenging it’s extremely hard ❖Prizes!

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❖Guess the Book games ❖Interactive displays ❖Board games and puzzles ❖Book Bios ❖Stats: 99 submissions

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❖How it works (four week format) ❖What the customers gets out of it

❖FUN!! ❖The satisfaction of completing a puzzle ❖$10 Chamber Bucks (funding from the Friends of the Library)

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❖Inspiration: BuzzFeed ❖Stats: 47 submissions

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❖Inspiration: a co-worker shared an email that she received via a listserv ❖Stats: 43 submissions

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❖Inspiration: BookRiot ❖Stats: 82 submissions

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❖Inspiration: Repurposing classic games ❖Stats: 86 submissions

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❖Inspiration: Repurposing classic games ❖Stats: 61 submissions

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❖Inspiration: BookRiot ❖Stats: 21 submissions so far (we are currently in week 2

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❖Inspiration: Pinterest

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❖Newsletter blurb ❖Desk signs ❖Slider on library website homepage ❖Social Media posts ❖Software used: InDesign, Photoshop, canva.com ❖Images: clipart.com (we subscribe to this site), book covers are used from the MORE catalog or the Wisconsin Digital Library

❖See notes below for larger list of free stock photo sites

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❖Winter Reading—Curl Up and Read

❖January-February

❖SLP—theme varies each summer

❖June 1-August 15

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❖Grand prizes have included: Kindle Fires and Chamber Bucks. ❖Other prizes: lap desks, book lights, free books, and donations from local businesses. ❖Each year the slip has changed (snowflake, mitten, snowman, bunny slipper). They are then cut out and displayed around the desk. ❖Reviews used for book displays.

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❖Last year there were four ways to win: a prize when you turned in a reading slip, a weekly prize drawing, the grand prize drawings at the end of the program, and a bonus game of 20 Questions. ❖We had 274 people register for the program.

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❖Most of the above prizes were donated by Eau Claire

businesses. Those not donated were purchased using funds

provided by the Friends of the Library

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How Customers Learned About the Program

Promotional Material in the Library Have Always Participated Friends/Family/Word of Mouth Library's Website Library Employee Volume One Library's Facebook Library's Newsletter BookBike Other

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