Promotional Ideas
- Use the ALA READ CD to produce promotional posters featuring local sporting heroes
- Ask local sporting heroes to visit storytime / holiday programs
Media guide
- Sample press release [to be linked]
Sponsors
- ANZ is this year's Summer Reading Club national sponsor. You can contact your local branch to discuss opportunities to put posters up on the bank's community information notice board or seek promotional items (eg. water bottles) as reading incentives.
- Don't forget to invite your local ANZ representatives to your launch or wind up parties.
- Check your local council's sponsorship policies before approaching other sponsors.
Displays
- Feature books about sports with sporting equipment and pictures of sporting heroes and local teams.
- Use a cricket bat as an incentive - every child who reads 20 books can sign the bat to be displayed in a position of honour in the library.