Poster Session Entry Information


Nebraska Libraries: Charting Paths to the Future
Get your campaigns ready, details have changed this year for the Poster Sessions!

[ 2007 NLA Poster Session Entry Form ]

     

Display how you promoted your program/event/new library practice/organization/etc. Why reinvent the wheel, share your thoughts with other libraries so they can benefit from your hard work, research, and/or new found success. Get ready to "Toot Your Own Horn", we want to hear about it. You may have done just the thing that another library needs to do, so show them how.

Did you mount a campaign to introduce a new service or resource? Generate enthusiasm in your community for a special program or speaker in your library? If you have made a special effort to market your library's services this year, here is a great opportunity to share your strategy with your colleagues.

We'll make arrangements for you to receive the questions attendees have for your exhibit, so you won't have to hang around, feel free to attend sessions and learn more, so next year you can do this again. Exhibit items should be no taller than 48 inches. Scrapbooks, or just about anything is welcome.

Bring your display Thursday morning or contact Pam Soreide or Janet Greser to make other arrangements. For questions or information, contact:

Pam Soreide
Holdrege Area Public Library
308-995-6556
director@holdregelibrary.org

Janet Greser
Nebraska Library Commission
800-307-2665
jgreser@nlc.state.ne.us

  • Judging: Account executives and creative department team members from SCORR Marketing in Kearney. Winners will be announced at the NLA/NEMA Banquet Thursday evening.
  • Poster session will be on exhibit from 8:30 a.m. Thursday until 4:45 p.m. Friday
  • Pick up your poster/exhibit after 4:45 p.m. on Friday, or make prior arrangements with Janet Greser or Pam Soreide.

Six prizes will be awarded. Judging, to be done by SCOR Marketing of Kearney, will be based on the following criteria:

  1. Best theme
  2. Best headline/title
  3. Best design
  4. Best use of multimedia (most innovative)
  5. Most un-library-like

Note: Categories open to your own interpretation. Your program may target any audience such as Seniors, Adults, Teens, School-aged, Toddlers, Babies, Families, General, or special groups.

Examples or Ideas presented for your perusal:

You've updated your signage so your library now looks like a retail bookstore or you've made it easier for clients to pickup their reserves.

The Fundraiser you had really added to your budget bottom line.

The program you invented took off like wildfire and you want everyone to know more about it.

The window display you designed brought more business into the library.

The class you held had great reviews, and now they want more.

Your Friends, Foundation, Trustees, or Volunteers have done some wonderful things for the library that has saved you time and\or money.

Is there a project you're done that really took off, like reading at the senior center, advertising on the local cable channel, being found at the local grocery store as a display, that has been getting your library noticed more.

Did you use a unique method of getting those kids to: come in more, volunteer more, check out more, or just plain ask you for help more often?

As you visit other libraries (don't we all) did you find something at another one that you copied, re-invented on your own, or just plain loved and now's the time to set it up and tell us about it.