Getting active

Booked Up 2008

Getting active

Displays

We hope that all participating public library services will be able to run Booked Up displays. Here are some ideas for your Booked Up display and book promotion:

• do a dedicated Booked Up display or graffiti board. Make sure that the display is prominently positioned in your library
• download the Booked Up logo from the Resources page to use in your displays
• use the board not only for young people’s comments/reviews but also to put up news articles, author features, librarian’s choice and so on! Take a look at the Your Space part of the Booked Up website to inform your displays
• do a ‘If you liked this…you’ll like this’ feature
• pull in your backlist! Add in other titles by the selected authors as well as other authors/books you think young people will enjoy. Use the information sheets that come with your package to help with this
• designate and timetable members of staff to refresh the Booked Up displays to ensure that they look suitably full and active throughout the autumn.

Reader development, partnership working and online

If you are considering taking your work on Booked Up a bit further, a list of participating schools by local authority is available so that you can target your work with specific schools in your area. (We have also provided a list of library contacts from participating library services for teachers in the resources section of this site.) Here are some suggested ways you could extend your work on Booked Up:

• if you are looking at doing partnership working contact the Booked Up coordinator at your local secondary school
• you could make class visits to participating schools in September to support young people in making their book choice (You can download the magazine all children will be receiving from the Resources page)
• explore setting up a Booked Up reading group in partnership with a participating school either in the library or as part of the extended schools programme
• run a Booked Up event – bringing together all the young people to talk about their own book, to get other reading recommendations and to create a buzz around reading
• you could run your own Reader’s Poll – who is the current favourite read?, run your own strapline competition, do a Young People’s Choice; create alternative book covers; do storyboards for the books; get young people to investigate the books and the authors and make scrapbooks in which they also add their own comments and thoughts for other young people to look at.
• bookmark the Booked Up site on library computers and have it on display in the library.
• encourage young people to take part in the Your Space part of the Booked Up – you could run a Your Space session.
• the Your Space page features the following: celebrity space (interviews with authors and presenters); author space (information about the Booked Up authors, podcasts and so on); games space (links to fun book related websites): competitions; what next (ideas for more brilliant reads); message board (share opinions and book recommendations); how to choose your free book (advice about how to select their free Booked Up book).
• make sure that the Booked Up promotion is featured on your website – explore whether you can make a link to the Booked Up site.
• content on the Booked Up website is a good source for updating your own displays. You can also sign up for newsletter updates on the programme from the home page.

Make sure that participating schools are aware that you have the Booked Up book collections so that they can direct their pupils to your library.