Promoting Book Series

Many of my students love to read books series, but I noticed that they keep reading the same series over and over again. Based on an idea that I got from a Facebook group, I decided to create some series bookmarks in order to encourage students to try a new series.
At first, I created the bookmarks to help with the unnumbered series, but then I decided to extend it to other series in the library. I printed them out on cardstock at 90% so they would fit in my pencil trays from Michaels. They are currently stored in a drawer at the circulation desk, but that might change.

Then I went into Alexandria and added an alert for the first book in every series. I did this so that I could make sure there was a bookmark when it was checked out. I also wanted to be alerted when it was returned so I could put in a bookmark and return it to the display shelf. (Sometimes when you're in the zone scanning books, you don't always notice these things...)

After setting that up, I put a bookmark inside the first book of every series and placed the books on a shelf of their own.

I also created a board with some summaries from Amazon and put it above the shelf to catch students' attention.

Here is what the entire area looks like:

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