This post may be short but I thought it would be a good time to talk about our displays and use of social media to share things with our students. We moved to the genre format three years back, but we found that there were still genre that were not being checked out so we put our heads together and started creating inventive ways to share our genre with the students. We started developing bulletin board displays in the hallway and making a selection of books available to the students in the media center. We pulled titles that don't circulate a lot, but would be well loved if they did and voilà, a great way to share with students our selection of the month.
A few months we have gone way overboard. We joined forces with the Student Council/ Spirit Club and made our theme go along with their spirit week. We had a Zombie themed October and the Spirit Club had a Zombie war the last week of the month. Kids tried to turn each other into zombies. It was awesome! We even had a few kids show up wearing zombie makeup.
No matter what we do to share our displays, we rely heavily on several social media platforms to present the information to as many as we can. We have a twitter account (@hamiltoncommlib) that is linked to our YouTube account and our Facebook account. We have a Pinterest account as well. I am also working on a Flickr account or Picasa to keep track of all of the images I take. I feel sharing as much information as I can makes people more aware of what is out there for them. It makes me feel like I am doing something right for our students. Each week, we make an animoto video with our new releases and put it on our school library blog/website.
We have some hits and some people check them out. All in all, I am pleased with the use of social media and how it is helping build PR for the library.
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