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ShopTalk

Community Outreach and Engagement

The "Haunted Library Tour" as Community Outreach and Engagement

Saturday, January 20, 2024
2:10pm – 2:30pm EST
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, ShopTalk Area B (LLX Marketplace, Level 100)
Hosting a "Haunted Library Tour" is a fun and engaging way to attract new patrons to your library and showcase your spaces and services. The idea of a "haunted library tour" can be easily adapted to any library, public or academic, and is an exciting and unique way for your local community to engage with your staff and your building. This presentation will demonstrate several inexpensive techniques you can use to "haunt" your own library, attract new patrons to your spaces, and celebrate the spooky season with your community, both young and old. Attendees will leave the presentation with several specific strategies they can use to create a "haunted tour" in their own libraries, as well as ideas on how to create new "hauntings" specific to their own library spaces.

Learning Objectives:

  • Upon completion, attendees will be able to plan a 15- or 30-minute tour of their own library spaces, highlighting their library's services.
  • Upon completion, attendees will be able to stage at least three (but likely more) "hauntings" in their own library spaces.
  • Upon completion, attendees will be able to use at least three strategies to promote their own "haunted library" event to the local community.