Week 6 Prompt - Integrated Advisory

 Promoting Horror Genre at a Library 

Horror is such a popular genre across all media. Whether it's books, movies, or video games, patrons are regularly looking for new recommendations. One way that we can showcase all of the titles that we have available at our library is to advertise some titles that we have in different mediums. Five Nights at Freddys is an extremely popular movie right now, so it would be a great time to show patrons that we can also get the graphic novel and the video game. This is also true for titles such as Resident Evil, The Last of US, and The Walking Dead. For titles that we have available in our own collection we could create displays that contain the book, movie, and video game of certain titles all together. For titles that may be ordered from other libraries or found on one of our online resources, we could create flyers for those titles like I have done below. These displays and flyers could help patrons explore new media while making sure that they are still consuming a story that they already love.

This can also be used across other genres as well. A “Page to Screen” display would give you a large number of titles in all genres to work with. You could also have a place in the library where you could have Read-A-Likes resources. Those could be printouts that have something along the lines of “If you liked the show New Girl then try the book Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating”.  This would be a way to promote many of the movies, shows, books, and games that are available at the library.