September is Library Card Sign-up Month

Although this is ALA’s support materials for the American Library Card Sign-up Month, I am sure smart libraries can adapt some of this for our purposes in Canada. I think you can buy some of the posters through OLA as well as other Ontario Public Library Week stuff.

http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/card

“September is [U.S.] Library Card Sign-up Month. A time to remind parents and children that a library card is the most important school supply of all.

Snoopy is Honorary Chair for Library Card Sign-up Month 2015!

Snoopy, the world-famous beagle has been known as The Flying Ace, The Masked Marvel, Man’s Best Friend, and the Literary Ace, among other personas; this fall he makes his star turn when he comes to the big screen in The Peanuts Movie from 20^th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. In September, he’s especially proud to serve as Honorary Chair of Library Card Sign-up Month.

Peanuts is syndicated in over 2000 newspapers worldwide, and is translated into 21 languages. Celebrating 65 years of making us laugh, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the whole Peanuts Gang can be found in publications from Simon and Schuster, Abrams Comic Arts, Running Press, Andrews McMeel, and more.

A webinar, “How to Leverage Snoopy to Run a Library-Card Sign-Up Campaign for Your Library,” is scheduled for July. Check back for details and information about how to register.

If you’re planning to use any of the free resources provided below, please take a moment to tell us about your plans for Library Card Sign-up Month.

Tell us your plans

Follow along:

#LibraryCardSignUp

Visit ilovelibraries.org/library-card

Buy full-size posters, bookmarks and stickers from ALA Graphics!

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Promotional tools for libraries

Sample Proclamation

Sample Press Release

Sample Public Service Announcement Scripts

Free 8.5″ x 11″ print PSA featuring 2015 Honorary Chair Snoopy

To download: Right click (Windows) or option-click (MAC) on the link or image and choose “Save Target As” to save it. Note the location of the file. (PDF 1 MB)

Free customization: Have your library’s own logo added to the PSA. Please send a print quality logo file (hi-res jpg or tif, or vector eps), your library name and url (if applicable) tommcfarlane@ala.org and we will generate the custom PSA for you (in PDF format) within 1-2 weeks.