[OPLINLIST] Displaying Your Library: Workshop in Blue Ash, Ohio

[SWON Libraries]

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  Displaying Your Library <http://www.swonlibraries.org/viewevent?id=1152>


      Date

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007


      Time

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.


      Location

SWON Libraries Office


      Speaker(s)

After a 22 year career in retail management, Mike Crumpton earned a MLS 
at the University of Kentucky, worked as Circulation Services Manager at 
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and for the past three 
years has been the Director of Library Services for Wake Technical 
Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Mike feels that facilitating the right environment and creating drama in 
the workplace, makes a huge difference to people in any environment. 
Having a program of ongoing and interesting displays plays a large part 
of that. In a retail setting, it is part of a purchasing decision, in 
the library it creates patron interest and helps secure the notion that 
a library is more than information, it is a place!


      Description

For years retailers have used a concept called "Atmospherics" to guide 
the use of facilities with regard to making purchases and decisions 
involving displays, store design, signage, operational procedures, staff 
training and many other attributes that they feel influence a customer's 
buying decision. Libraries do not typically have the luxury to spend 
money on these activities but can develop a program to make a difference 
in their atmospherics, which can influence user's perceptions of the 
library as a place.

This workshop will address the study of atmospherics and how principles 
and ideas used in retail stores can be applied to library environments, 
sometimes at very little cost, and will enhance your library's appeal so 
patrons will want to visit and visit often. We will focus on basic 
issues that appeal to any person's sense of wanting to visit and we'll 
discuss the use of displays to create drama and an exciting experience 
for very patron. Displays do not have to be expensive or require big 
investments. We'll discuss how to keep patrons interested and involved 
without blowing the budget.


      Meal

Continental breakfast and lunch will be served


      Audience

This workshop is open to all library professionals and staff.


      Contributing Member of SWON Libraries

$55


      Friend of SWON Libraries

$55


      Contributing Member of NEO-RLS, NORWELD, or SERLS

$55


      Other

$110

The deadline to register is Saturday, July 28th, 2007



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