Dear all
Many thanks to all who responded with your suggestions/ideas of freebies for Freshers' Fayre. The following is a list of things other libraries have given away:
Plastic curly straws with text (i.e. logo/URL) printed on.
Diary stickers
Door hangers
Branded origami paper products
Sweets
Lucky Dip (popular and engaging)
Tissues
Condoms with library branding!!
£1 trolley coins
Phone screen wipers
Beer labels (library branded) on cheap bottles of beer
Sunglasses
Fluorescent wristbands
Cupcakes with edible logo
Pens
Pencils
Rubbers
Pencil sharpeners
Fluffy bugs
Lollipops
Post-its
Rubik cubes with details of a different library service on each side
Raffle to win USB sticks, cinema tickets, cloth book bags and book tokens (book bags and book tokens were not always collected but the cinema tickets were popular)
Tombola with useful (note books, pens, print credit tokens) and the not so useful (tins of Spam, Pot Noodles, sweets). Was very popular and fun.
Nobody had done any focus group work with students asking their views on FF freebies, several off-list replies thought this would be a useful exercise to do.
One library did do a quick and dirty survey asking students what they thought of their ideas of things to give away and discovered that their idea of handing out plastic ponchos with the library logo printed on the back would not be cool. So now you know :-)
Thanks and good luck with Freshers' Fayre.
Sarah
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