Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Call for contributions: “Swap & Shop: Hot Ideas for Cool PR,” at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim

Call for contributions: “Swap & Shop: Hot Ideas for Cool PR,” at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim

Libraries of all types and sizes, share your creative, great public relations efforts with your colleagues! Gain international exposure for your library’s marketing and promotional items by sending them to “Swap & Shop: Hot Ideas for Cool PR,” at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim.

The annual Swap & Shop event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 29, in the Special Events Area in Hall D of the exhibit floor at the Anaheim Convention Center. ALA attendees will have the opportunity to fill their free Swap & Shop tote bag with the very best samples of library public relations (annual reports, newsletters, reading promotions, and more). More than 950 library professionals attended Swap & Shop in 2007.

Your items must be received by Friday, June 20. All shipments (please send 50-200 copies of your items) MUST have a Swap & Shop Shipping label – please cut out and use the label at the bottom.

We will display your materials proudly at Swap & Shop, which will also feature the winners of the Best of Show contest (a juried selection of the best PR materials produced in the past year), the John Cotton Dana Awards for outstanding achievement in library public relations, PR Makeovers of an academic and public library, and more.

Questions? For more information contact: Luke Vilelle, the 2007-08 Swap & Shop Committee Chair, at 540-362-6592 or lvilelle@hollins.edu.

Swap & Shop is sponsored by the Swap & Shop Committee, from the Public Relations and Marketing Section of the Library Administration & Management Association (LAMA) Division of ALA.