Laura
We promote our services in as much of a 'retail' way as the stock and
buidlings allow. We are moving from hardback to paperbacks, with more and
more front facing displays. We included a music listening post in a teenage
section of a library recently refurbished, and added in a couple of black
leather settees
I plan to refresh one of my libraries where issues are falling with a new
look, based on this approach - lots of videos and DVDs in your face as you
enter etc
Kevin Batchelor
Principal Librarian
Brent Library Service
Town Hall Library,
Forty Lane,
Wembley,
Middlesex,
HA9 9HV
tel: 020 8937 3503
mobile: 07947 068577
fax: 020 8937 3504
email: [log in to unmask]
Laura Ewart
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I'm trying to find out how many libraries consciously consider using
retail techniques for displaying / improving access to books.
Has anyone ordered specific furniture for displaying books face on?
Does anyone have comfy sofas in their library?
Has anyone tried these approaches and found they don't work?
let me know your experiences or thoughts if you have time.
thanks for your help.
Laura Ewart
MA Librarianship, sheffield
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