250 tested ideas for lively libraries or GO, PEP, and POP!
Baeckler and Larson
1976
Submitter: Not only is this book ancient, but it was also still on the shelf. We are a small, rural public library.
Holly: The sample suggestion card (first image below) is fantastic. At first I thought an actual patron wrote in the book and the staff responded, but it’s just a sample (the authors’ names are in the response). Some of the ideas in the book aren’t bad. Others, like “Acquaint yourself with…various printing machines: ditto, mimeograph, electric mimeo and stencil maker, offset press” are horribly outdated.
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