DIY Programming and Book Displays: How to Stretch Your Programming without Stretching Your Budget and Staff - Softcover

Struckmeyer, Amanda Catherine; Hetzler, Svetha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598844725 ISBN 13: 9781598844726

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2010

Synopsis

This manual guides librarians in creating simple, affordable, ready-to-use activities for children, 'tweens, teens, and families, with enough material for a full year of programs.

Do-it-yourself programming is an emerging model in which the librarian does the preparation, then lets patrons take over. DIY Programming and Book Displays: How to Stretch Your Programming without Stretching Your Budget and Staff makes it easy for librarians to institute such programs in their own facilities.

Organized around 12 thematic chapters, the book explains how to set up and maintain a do-it-yourself station and offers instructions for a variety of year activities. Reproducible materials and booklists are included as well. Librarians may use the activities as starting points for generating their own ideas or they may simply photocopy materials in the book for ready-to-use, monthly DIY programming. Once set up, the DYI station is available to patrons anytime they are in the library. Best of all, because DIY programs do not rely on staff, space, or special materials, they allow libraries to make the most of their resources without sacrificing patron service.

About this title

About the Author

Amanda Moss Struckmeyer is youth services librarian at the Middleton Public Library, Middleton, WI.

Svetha Hetzler is youth services librarian at the Middleton Public Library, Middleton, WI.

Reviews

DIY programming is a growing trend in libraries. The basic concept revolves around staff putting in prep time and then leaving the rest to the patrons. Struckmeyer and Hetzler use their personal experience as public librarians in a medium-sized library to show library staff how to set up and maintain a DIY station. An introduction of the basics is followed by 12 chapters based on the months and presenting ideas for themes as well as the necessary reproducible materials and activities to implement them. Themes are broad and presented in a way that opens the door for new ideas to emerge. At the same time, the chapters are thorough enough that readers can use what is provided and have a complete program. Most programs are aimed at youth and teens, and children’s and YA staff will be more than happy to see this title in their professional collections. --Asia Gross

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598844725
• ISBN 13: 9781598844726
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232