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Thanks to the public library authorities (and a few others) who have
responded to the request for information about collaborative ventures
between libraries, publishers and/or booksellers.
WE STILL NEED TO HEAR FROM SOME MORE OF YOU!!!
You may have recently organised or be planning one or more of the
following:
literature festival
author visit
reading group
events in schools
Branching Out promotions
publications
bookselling within the library
................. and lots more!
We'd like to know about your event, however big or small, so that we can
inform our research. If you don't remember what this is, here are the
details again:
Promoting books and reading: tell us your stories
What's going on?
A research project entitled "The promotion of books and reading: libraries,
booksellers and publishers working together" has just started. The aim of
this project is to produce guidance to encourage sustainable partnerships
between libraries, booksellers, library suppliers and publishers across the
UK which promote reading and books to adults and children.
The research is funded by the BNB Research Fund and is being undertaken by
a team at the Centre for Information Research at the University of Central
England in Birmingham from September 2000 to April 2001.
What do we do?
We would like you to tell us about collaborative reading promotion projects
which have happened recently or are ongoing, some of which will be chosen
as case studies to inform our research. We would like to hear about joint
reading promotion ventures all over the UK between any combination of the
three sectors - public librarians, booksellers and publishers. We
particularly want to know about small-scale activities, which have helped
(or failed to help) you meet your objectives. Please tell us about both
adults' and children's promotions. Although we will not be able to use all
projects as case studies, we will nevertheless need to know about a large
number in order to describe the range of activity in this important area.
Confidentiality will be preserved.
What's in it for us?
The outcome will be practical guidance for all three sectors on exploiting
opportunities already available, and handy tips on getting started in
collaborative ventures which meet the objectives of both commercial and
public service interests.
Please make contact, with brief details in the first instance, with Stella
Thebridge, via one of the channels below.
Don't leave it to someone else!!!
THANK YOU
[N.B. I regret that my email sometimes refuses to allow a return message to
be sent. If you send a new message either to the UCE address or the
alternative 'Yahoo!' address below, this should work - apologies for this
inconvenience.]
Stella Thebridge
Researcher
Centre for Information Research (CIRT)
School of Information Studies
University of Central England in Birmingham (UCE)
Perry Barr
Birmingham
B42 2SU
Tel: 0121-331 6732 Fax: 0121-331 5675
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