April 5
Do your National Library Week activities bring significantly more patrons into the library?
YES..........12%
NO...........88%
Number of responses.....112
Sample comments:
Positive responses emphasized using NLW as a publicity hook:
* It "helps publicize the library and puts a focus on what is going on, said one respondent, "especially when we bribe them with chocolate!" noted another.
* "Our activities bring in about 20 more people a day."
Negative responses were skeptical about the usefulness of the event and supporting materials, calling it a "fake holiday."
* "We put up the ALA posters but did not see an increase in activity or interest."
* "Most libraries don't make any big deal out of National Library week. I almost forgot that this was Library Week right now-and I work in a library!"
* "The '@ your library' campaign has to go! It is so very bland; it is meaningless."