Week 6 Prompt

Dear Director,

In response to your query at the staff meeting last Tuesday, I suggest we do the following to promote the horror genre here at the library.

·      Designate the first two weeks of the month as “The Weeks of Screams and Horror”

·      Since we have a large entrance area, place one display table to the right of the front door that is labeled Best Selling Horror and fill it with books that we have on our shelves that have sold well over the years. Have one of our I Pads under the display sign showing a series of images of book covers with three-second visuals.  

·      Place the other display table to the left of the front door and have it labeled “Horror of Horrors! Books to Movies!”  Place on this table all the horror movies that began their lives as books.  Place an I Pad under the display sign that shows snippets of horror movies.

·      At the Information and Reference Desk have a single sheet of Reader Advisory for Horror. As Horror literature is graphic, have the Reader’s Advisory have pictures of book covers that link book covers.  In addition, have a Rearer's Advisory linking authors, ideally with headshots of the authors above their names.

·      In addition to the pictorially oriented Reader’s Advisory, I think we want to have on hand a list of the top twenty horror novels of all time.  Included with the author and title will be a brief synopsis of the book. 

·      Hire a couple of actors to do a couple of scenes in the main area from one of the most popular horror novels: Jack Ketchum, The Girl Next Door or Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby.   We will want to promote the enactment before hand through the newspaper, local radio, website, email and twitter lists.  We also want to invite the local TV News station and local newspaper photographers to be on hand and interview you, staff, and willing patrons about this exciting development. 

·      At least one week prior we need to have a rotating display of images of horror books that come up automatically when people access our website for the catalogue and additional library information.

·      I think we have old book posters of horror books in our archival room.  We should dig those out and put them on the walls throughout the library.  

Let me know how I can be of service to make our promotion a success!

Jeff