Publicizing Love Your Library Days
- NEW! Information about Events - go to our new Events page!
- NEW! Let Librarians be your guide to the best books for holiday giving - Link to Connecticut Library Consortium's annual guide to holiday book giving - includes a Love Your Library voucher on the back - print it out & bring it with you on Love Your Library days at Barnes & Noble!
- Press Releases & Articles - NEW! Article in the 11/29/05 Hartford Courant Lifestyle section; Article in 11/30/05 News-Times; Article PRNewswire 11/29/05
- Linking your website to Love Your Library resources
- Logos & Graphics
- Vouchers
- Posters
NEW! The Hartford Courant's Tuesday, November 29, 2005 Lifestyle section - page D1 - highlights the Connecticut Library Consortium's "Best Books for Holiday Giving" list and the Love Your Library statewide library fundraiser. The article is available online at http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-lovelibrary1129.artnov29,0,4912107.story Many thanks to Carole Goldberg, the intrepid Books Editor at the Courant for her interest in this story! This article is now in iCONN's ProQuest database (have your library card number handy, if you want to use this database outside of the library)
NEW! November 30's edition of The News-Times (of Danbury) has a great article by Pat Conway - 'Murder She Wrote' Authors to Appear at Barnes & Noble - Danbury residents and co-authors of the extremely popular Murder She Wrote series Donald Bain and Renee Paley-Bain will be at the Barnes & Noble in Danbury on Friday, December 2 at 7:30 pm.
NEW! Newswire features the Anne Margaret Lewis Has Anyone Seen Christmas? tour! 11/29/05
NEW! Yahoo Financial news features the Anne Margaret Lewis Has Anyone Seen Christmas? book tour 11/29/05
Press Release (Word .doc) (PDF file) | Conn-Text article (Word .doc) (PDF file) (online at the CLC website). Press releases have been sent out to many Connecticut newspapers, but additional publicity is needed, so please consider using your own media contacts to get the public to participate in Love Your Library days!
Newsletters which have already included Love Your Library:
- FOCL (Friends of CT Libraries) Fall Newsletter
- Connecticut PTA's November Newsletter
Link to http://www.loveyourlibrary.com or directly to the vouchers at http://www.loveyourlibrary.com/BOOKFAIR%20VOUCHERS.pdf. Also, feel free to link to or copy from any other portions of this site that will help you to promote Love Your Library days.
Libraries supporting Love Your Library (through website links):
While all Connecticut libraries are supporting the event by giving out vouchers, arranging events, etc., some Connecticut libraries and library networks are also linking to Love Your Library from their websites. Here's a partial list of linked library organizations:
- http://www.biblio.org - Bibliomation library network
- http://www.lioninc.org - LION library network
- http://ct.webjunction.org/do/Home - WebJunction - Connecticut
- http://www.ctlibrarians.org - Connecticut Library Consortium
- http://cla.uconn.edu/ - Connecticut Library Association
- http://www.leaplibraries.org/orange/ - Case Memorial Library, Orange
- http://www.cantonpubliclibrary.org - Canton Public Library
- http://www.ctsprague.org/Library.htm - Sprague Library
- http://www.windsorlibrary.org - Windsor Public Library
- http://www.burlingtonctlibrary.info - Burlington Public Library
- http://www.ci.bristol.ct.us/content/3374/default.aspx - Bristol Public Library
- http://brookfieldlibrary.org/ - Brookfield Library
- http://www.hchlibrary.org/ - Henry Carter Hull Library, Clinton
- http://www.biblio.org/newmilford/ - New Milford Public Library
- http://www.enfieldpubliclibrary.org/LYLwishlist.htm - Enfield Public Library’s wishlist
- http://www.easthamptonct.org/library/ - East Hampton Public Library
- http://www.newington.lib.ct.us/6_adult.html - Lucy Robbins Welles Library
- http://www.trumbullct-library.org/ - The Trumbull Library System
- http://www.talkofconnecticut.com/yourtown.php - Enfield and area libraries have Love Your Library events listings posted here
- http://www.enfieldpubliclibrary.org/ - Enfield Public Library
- http://www.enfieldpubliclibrary.org/LYL.htm - Enfield ’s Love Your Library page (Enfield has arranged a whole weekend extravaganza, in conjunction with libaries in neighboring Somers and Suffield!)
- http://somersnow.com/library/calendar.htm - Somers Public Library’s Events Calendar page
- http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/library/index.html - New Haven Free Public Library (which is working closely with the North Haven store, as their local, city-based store is a campus bookstore and cannot participate)
- http://www.norwalklib.org & http://www.norwalklib.org/events.htm - Norwalk Public Library
- http://www.fairfield.edu/x15485.xml - Fairfield University, DiMenna-Nyselius Library's Love Your Library page
Did we miss your website / newsletter? Have you included Love Your Library in publicity put out by your library? Please contact sclapp@cslib.org to get listed here! Thank you - and remember more iCONN funding means more database options for everyone in Connecticut.
Love Your Library campaign logo:
iCONN logo:
Connecticut Library Consortium logo:
Barnes & Noble logo:
Vouchers can be accepted in black & white or color. They can be printed, copied, or clipped from a newsletter/newspaper/magazine. 100 vouchers have been delivered via C-CAR to Connecticut's public libraries. Additional copies can be made or printed out by libraries - black & white versions will be accepted. as well as color.
- Single voucher - JPEG (.jpg's can be viewed in your web browser)
- 3 vouchers/8.5x11-inch page (in 4-color format) - PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
- 3 vouchers/8.5x11-inch page (in 2-color format) - PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
- 3 vouchers/page (in color) - JPEG (.jpg's can be viewed in your web browser)
- 3 vouchers/page (black & white) - JPEG (.jpg's can be viewed in your web browser)
Posters are currently being mailed to all Connecticut public libraries - 1 11x17" poster was printed for each library. Watch for them!
New Love Your Library Posters! in Adobe PDF file format - 11x17" for your convenience...
For Information about Love Your Library days Events - Go to Our New Events Page!