Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect with Your Whole Community

Sophie Brookover; Elizabeth Burns

ISBN 10: 1573873365 / ISBN 13: 9781573873369

Published by Information Today, Inc., 2008

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

Seller Inventory # BSM.132GT

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect with Your Whole Community
• Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573873365
• ISBN 13: 9781573873369
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

You loved the blog now read the book! Whether you regularly follow entertainment and gossip news, or wondered Corbin Who? when you saw the recent ALA READ poster, Pop Goes the Library will help you connect with your users and energize your staff. Pop culture blogger-librarians Sophie Brookover and Elizabeth Burns define what pop culture is (and isn t) and share insights, tips, techniques, and success stories from all types of libraries. You ll discover practical strategies and ideas for incorporating the pop culture passions of your users into collections, programs, and services, plus a range of marketing and outreach ideas, technology tools, and ready-to-go programs you can start using today. Here is an eye-opening book that s as much fun to read as it is to apply!

Reviews

Written by the contributors to the blog PopGoestheLibrary, this work defines how popular culture can contribute to any library. Expanding from brief blog posts to a book, the authors explore what popular culture is and, more importantly, what it is not. Also examined are what it means to create a popular-culture collection and how to use popular culture to generate staff and public support. Real librarians and staff are represented in a Voices from the Field section in each chapter. The volume ends with four appendixes chock-full of resources and ideas for implementing the ideas presented. A comprehensive index makes this a valuable reference, while the writing style encourages reading cover to cover. Popular culture can be a powerful tool for helping libraries connect with their users, and this book is required reading. It will be updated at www.popgoesthelibrary.com/popbook. --Sara Marcus