Just spotted this on PUBLIB and thought it might make a good program for fans of several ages:
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:10:32 -0400 From: <[email protected]> Subject: [Publib] NASCAR & Sports Librarians To: [email protected] We don't have anywhere near the money it would take to get a real, actual, Sprint Cup driver here, even though Charlotte is only four hours away. What we have done is: 1)Invite the local motor sports columnist to come in and speak and do a Q&A. Thomas Pope has been writing about NASCAR for 25+ years. 2)Invite another local expert, who can remember Lee Petty sitting around his grandfather's living room with some of the other local dirt-track drivers, whose names completely escape me 3) Hold a program ourselves after returning from the 50th running of the Daytona 500, showing photos of what we saw and just generally noshing about the sport 4) Invite a local dirt track driver to come out and talk about "doin' it in the dirt" 5) Finally, inviting another man who is active in the local dirt track scene, has driven as well as owned a dirt-track team, and usually works as a flag man at our local track. BTW, none of these programs cost us a cent! Sana Moulder LA II Fayetteville NC NASCAR and other sports are far removed from the typical library program, so these folks thought "outside the box". If you are trying to interest a new demographic to your library (GUYS), you might consider this or something similar. Baseball is going on, basketball (NBA) just ended, and football is coming up. Less well-publicized sports such as tennis, swimming, soccer, and lacrosse all have their fans. Perhaps a "sports week" or "sports evenings" over several weeks would bring in new people to visit about these topics. Have your best (current) sports books out and bookmarks with helpful websites on professional & college sports. Let me know if you need help finding those. Laurie Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street Austin, Texas 78756 www.ctls.net [email protected] 512-583-0704 x18 800-262-4431 x18
