Communities Thrive@Your Library

Celebrate National Library Week with free customizable PSA

To promote National Library Week 2010, a free customizable public
service announcement (PSA) featuring award-winning author Neil Gaiman is now available.

Gaiman, the 2009 Newbery Medal winner for The Graveyard Book, will appear in both a print and a radio public service announcement. Gaiman’s love of libraries and librarians is no secret, as his many fans and Twitter followers know.

The PSA can be downloaded for free at http://www.ala.org/nlw. The PSA
reminds library users of all the resources the library offers and how
libraries are of key importance in tough economic times. To have the
PSA customized with their library’s logo, librarians are asked to send a
print quality logo file, their library name, and URL to
ala@atigraphics.com. The PSA will be sent to the library in one to two
weeks.

Other materials are currently available in both English and Spanish,
focusing on the 2010 National Library Week theme, “Communities thrive @ your library.” They include a proclamation, sample press release and letter to the editor, as well as scripts for use in radio public service announcements. Libraries can download materials at
http://www.ala.org/nlw.

Libraries planning to participate in “Communities thrive @ your library”
themed programming are encouraged to share their stories with the
Campaign for America’s Libraries by sending an e-mail to
atyourlibrary@ala.org.

ALA Graphics products supporting the “Communities thrive” theme are also available. In addition to the 2010 National Library Week poster and bookmark, libraries can also purchase mini posters and, new this year, a downloadable transit sign. National Library Week themed Web files along with all Graphics products can be purchased through the ALA Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/nlw.

National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians and to promote library use.

–klm