Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1614919 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

From School Library Journal
On the surface, contests may appear straightforward, but those that are successful take great amounts of behind-the-scenes work. This comprehensive book covers planning, implementing, and evaluating contests of all kinds, for all kinds of libraries. It addresses setting budgets and schedules, choosing prizes and judges, establishing rules, promoting the contest, and evaluating it once it is over. The final chapter details four tried-and-true programs various libraries have held: an Earth Day coloring contest for children; a One Book, One City essay competition for high schoolers; and two challenges for all ages–Guess the Number of Bricks in the New Building and Create a Clothing Accessory from Duct Tape. The text is detailed, and readers are sure to have many aha! moments because they won't necessarily have thought of particular details. The authors, a library director and an outreach coordinator, cover potential negatives as well as positives in plain language. There is good advice here for assistant directors, public-relations departments, or any other staff who may get asked to create and run a contest. The illustrations are informative, but their layout is frustrating as they can be several pages away from the text they reference, which makes for much page flipping. But this is a minor quibble about an otherwise thorough book.–Geri Diorio, The Ridgefield Library, CT
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