ALSC's Kids! @ your library® Campaign tool kit provides promotion tips, sample press materials, free downloadable art, and other tools to help local libraries reach out to kids, their parents and caregivers.

Kids! @ your library® Campaign
Tool kit

Tips and tools for promoting library services to children and their families from the Association for Library Service to Children.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Letter from Ellen Fader and Stephanie Bange

3. Kids! What They Told Us

4. Sample Communication Plan

5. Publicity, Programming & Promotion

• Tween-friendly programs! - NEW!
• A list of a dozen ways to use campaign materials to spruce up a summer reading program
• A Bibliography of Books about Kids and Libraries
• A List of Songs for Kids about Reading and Libraries
• Top Ten Things for Kids to Do @ your library® - in English and Spanish!
• Spread the Word: There’s so much to see, so much to do @ your library®
• Sign ‘em Up!
• Arrange an Author Visit
• Host a Celebrity Read-a-thon
• 10 Places to Reach Parents
• Reach Out to Kids & Families
• What Works: Good Ideas from ALSC Members

  • Helping parents
  • Helping homeschoolers
  • Enriching after school time
  • Promoting books & reading
  • Making time for families
  • Making learning fun
  • More ideas

6. Media and Marketing 

• Free, downloadable print PSAs (print-ready PDFs in English and Spanish!)
• Free, downloadable audio PSA (recorded by Grammy winner Bill Harley!)
• Marketing Bibliography - A dozen marketing tools to get you started
• Sample Letter to Youth-serving Agency
• Sample News Release
• Sample Public Service Announcements (scripts for radio in English and Spanish!)

7. Facts You Can Use: Children, Reading & Libraries

8. Calendar of Promotional Opportunities

9. Resources

10. Quotable Quotes

11. Download FREE Logos/Line Art - NEW! - Logos in blue & green and in Polish, Russian and French!! 

12. "@ your library" - free, downloadable versions of Bill Harley's song

13. Games, puzzles, and other fun things for kids to do @ your library®
The Games and Puzzles Web page is designed for kids to visit and use. You may also want to download and copy these activities for programs, school visits, and other uses. All activities have a library theme!

• Crossword Puzzle
• Double Puzzle
• Letter Tiles Game
• Mazes (for various age levels)
• Word Searches (for various age levels)
• Hidden Pictures Puzzles

14. Fun Activities Your Library Can Hold

• Letterboxing Activity - NEW! 
• Poetry Programs
• Bookmark Contests
• Mad Lib Games - NEW! "Summer at the library" themed game!
• Readers Theater "How to" Guide - NEW!
• Readers/Story Theater Scripts - NEW! - The Library Card and Bud, Not Buddy 
• Scavenger Hunts - NEW! - Library treasure hunt for grades 5 through 8!
• Library Rap

15. Especially for Families
This Web page is designed for children and parents with links to Great Web Sites for Kids, online games and puzzles, and recommended book lists.

16. Contact Us