Promoting Book Series

Text - Promoting Book Series; Image shows a bookshelf of books with bookmarks showing out of the top
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.
Multicolor pencil trays holding bookmarks
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...)
Screenshot of Alexandria program showing an alert saying "First"
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.
Various books with bookmarks
Image shows a bookshelf of books with bookmarks showing out of the top
I also created a board with some summaries from Amazon and put it above the shelf to catch students' attention.
Text - We're #1, Try the first book in a new series!; Image - Blue trifold board with book covers and summaries
Here is what the entire area looks like:
Text - We're #1, Try the first book in a new series!; Image - Blue trifold board with book covers and summaries, bookshelf with books below trifold board
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3 comments

  1. Wow that is awesome! So helpful. I am just learning so thank you.

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  2. Thank you for generosity and sharing such a great idea.

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