The Finnish Library Association celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2010. On the occasion of the anniversary The Finnish Library Association wants to promote... A new Indigo (Chapters, Cole) book advertisement to promote child literacy. Love this 
Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain’s history, take this fantastic opportunity to search this vast treasure trove of historical newspapers from your own hom Thanks to Tania. Ok Go The Muppets show theme song. Videos like this are always great to show on our large TV screen in the library. It's not always about books! 
Fiction is like a box of chocolates is the fiction blog for our school library. We use this to promote reading, new books, student articles and reviews on movies and games submitted by students.
Thanks to Salamandrine on Scoop.it who I follow for this site. I think it has some great ideas and pics we can use to promote reading during our National Year of Reading 2012 in Australia. 
Library users are often overwhelmed trying to choose from the huge selection of books filling the shelves. 
Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, and a lot more! Buy custom printed calendars, posters, and gifts. Spell with flickr an oldie but a goodie. I use this to make posters and signs for the library. 
This has been a great resource last year when we introduced Kindles and ebooks into our school library. We have a large TV screen in our secondary school library and we use this to promote books and reading. I try and show fun and quirky videos like this to capture the students attention |
Tool for automatic conversion to the EPUB format: bookmarklet, widget and API... This could have many possibilities to promote say author or book websites. I have not used it but plan to see if we could use this in the library Next year is National Year of Reading in Australia and been looking for ideas. Love this ad for UK NYR in 2008. I wonder if we could make our own video? http://bit.ly/AMonsterCalls A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd At seven minutes past midnight, ... 
This would make a great display in our library but boy lots of work. Mmmmm have to think about that one. Love it though 
National Year of Reading 2012 in Australia. Great theme to use throughout the year in our school library. Already collecting ideas for displays and competitions to keep our students aware. Video has become an excellent tool for library promotion, marketing, and instruction. 
"Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?" A music site I use when I create DVD's and Slideshows for our large TV in the library 
Our public domain pictures scanned from old books are all royalty-free. All our illustrations are free to download and galleries are searchable. 
I use this site for backgrounds and textures when I create posters and signs for the library. It is also useful when creating Wikis, Nings etc. to make them more visually appealing. "Free Library of Background Textures and Background Images for web sites, websites. Free download." Another fun video to promote books to our students "12 Books in 120 Seconds," the first in a series of three panic-stricken videos leading up to THE END. Narrated by the infamous Tim Curry. |
