ILA Presentation on Big Ideas on a Small Budget. Printed for banner use - sorry about the intro!

1. BIG

2. IDEAS

3. ON A

4. SMALL

5. BUDGET

6. GUITAR PROGRAM
 Patrick Sweeney (@pcsweeney)
 Purchased Secondhand Guitars
o Others where donations
 Available for Check-Out
 Guitar Instructor offered FREE Classes
o In exchange was allowed to sell
additional classes for one-on-one sessions
 Soon evolved where kids taught the classes!

7. LASER TAG
 Ubisoft Laser Tag System
 Purchased from
1saleaday.com
o About $60.00 per set
of two
 Ultimate after hours fun!
o Play in the stacks

8. MYSTERY GRAB BAG
 Purchase different colored paper bags
o Each bag is for a different genre of book
o Place Barcode number
outside of bag
 May have to write it
o Place book inside bag, and
staple it close
 Gets your circ numbers up!

9. ART FOR LIBRARY
 Justin Hoenke (@JustinLibrarian)
 Art school students volunteer time
 Get the highschool kids to attend and make
art for the library
 Their art is displayed – sense of “publication”
 Low cost to get new, custom, and trendy art
for your library.
o Oh, and an awesome program!

10. QR CODE SCAVENGER
 QR Code SCANvenger hunt
o Get people to check out e-books
o Get people to find new content in library
o Get people to explore your library!
 All easy to set up, smart phone required
o Most people own a smart phone!

11. Big Take Aways
 Use Twitter to connect with vendors
o Sifteo – Sent us a Free Set
o Sphero – Sent us a Free Set & T-Shirts
o Reaper Miniatures – Sent Gift Card for a
paint and take
o Tweet Out – Get Response!
 Always ask for better pricing

12. More Big Take Aways
 Useful Sites
o 1saleday.com / Woot.com Deep Discount
Sites (often refurbs)
o TechSoup.Org
o Google Apps – Free Email/Docs/Calendar
o Sugar Sync – Cloud Based BackUp

13. Summer Education
 Kankakee Public Library
 During summer educational program
o Offered Art, Math, Writing, Video
 Art – Walk through the different art forms
through the years
 Video – Did Claymation
 Math / Writing – Used iPad apps to engage
kids.

14. Video Marketing
 Chad Mairn (@cmairn)
 Had students create viral video marketing
tools
o Purchase cheap inexpensive flip cams
 We need YOU to help hype YOUR library! We are planning to
video record student testimonials regarding the library's
resources and services and would love your input and/or
testimonial. And take the video camera away from us! Record
your own tour, conduct your own interviews, or do whatever
you want to help hype YOUR library.

15. Sphero Ball
 Use a fun innovative Toy to
engage into a conversation
o Roll ball around schools to
get kids to ask “what is that”
 Make them know your library is
more than just books!
 Ask us about getting a discount from the $
130.00 MSRP price

16. Art Gallery
 Engage the high school and junior high
populous and start an art gallery at your
library
 Host an art show
 Very little cost;
except prizes!

17. Miniature Golf
 Purchase cheap plastic and foam to set up
paths and fairways with
felt.
 Have it throughout the
library, engage the
participants through your
space

18. Holiday Display
 During special holiday periods, find books that
are colored the holiday colors (not necessarily
about the holiday) and place them on a stand
near your end caps
o For instance, during Christmas, find green
and red books and have them out on your
shelves as either endcap displays or on the
shelves