press kit – CRPLSA

SELCO’s MNBA Publicity

SELCO created personalized press kits for nine Minnesota Book Award finalists and winners to help promote recent author visits. The press materials always include a general press release, a sample Facebook post, and a tweet for the library’s Twitter account. Several have expanded biographical information when it was readily available.

Feel free to use this Library Legacy publicity if an author visits your community!

Brenda Child
Tricia Cornell
Allen Eskens
Michael Hall
Nicole Helget
Julie Klassen
Nancy Koester
Larry Millet
Laura Purdie Salas

SELCO’s 2016 Minnesota Book Award Author Tour press kits

ECRL Push for Broadband Support

MN Broadband Vision 2016 East Central Regional Library (ECRL) is in the midst of a marketing campaign to generate support for the Minnesota Broadband Vision and solicit personal stories. This follows the February 2016 ECRL board meeting, when the board endorsed a resolution supporting the Minnesota Broadband Vision stating that “everyone in Minnesota will be able to use convenient, affordable, world-class broadband networks that enable us to survive and thrive in our communities and across the globe.”

Components shared with each of the 14 ECRL locations include:

Press release announcing the efforts
Poster (11 x 17) of the broadband resolution signed by ECRL board president, Mike Warring
A broadband table tent
An online survey, as well as on location half-sheets to collect personal broadband or Internet stories
Broadband petition to be shared with with area legislators

The ECRL broadband publicity efforts will continue through March 26.

MNBA press materials

With Minnesota Book Award finalists and winning authors traveling the SELCO region (and other parts of the state as well) SELCO created a press kits to assist local libraries in getting out the good news about these speakers. The press materials always include a general press release, a sample Facebook post, and a tweet for the library’s Twitter account. Several have expanded information and may include biographical information or even an author’s book jacket photo. These press kits closely resemble those created and shared by ALS promoting the Minnesota History Players. Feel free to use to promote an author visiting your community!

Rae Katherine Eighmey – Soda Shop Salvation

Jack El-Hai – The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

Brian Freeman – The Cold Nowhere

Cary Griffith – Wolves

Rachel Hanel – We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down

Erin Hart – The Book of Killowen

Melanie Hoffert – Prairie Silence

Thomas Maltman – Little Wolves

Carrie Mesrobian – Sex & Violence: A Novel

Kent Nerburn – The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo

Elizabeth Verdick – Peep Leap

History Players in Libraries & Schools

Using props and artifacts, costumed History Players from the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) engage library patrons of all ages in their memorable life stories. Each lively 45-minute presentation is a fun and stimulating way to learn about the people, places, and events that shaped Minnesota.

The Arrowhead Library System (ALS) created promotional press kits to assist library promotional efforts when hosting a History Player. Click the links below for information about these important Minnesotans.

Charley Goddard – teenage Civil War solider
Frederick McKinley Jones – inventor of refrigerated trucking
George Nelson – fur trade clerk
Joseph Farr – Station Master on the Underground Railroad
Maud Hart Lovelace – children’s author
Toni Stone – first African-American woman to play professional baseball with the Negro Leagues
Virginia Mae Hope – World War II pilot
Wanda Gag – storybook author and illustrator

Through a partnership between CRPLSA and MHS, the History Players are available for Library Legacy programs. For more information, contact your regional library Legacy Coordinator.