My experience is much the same as yours. This is what I have done for our library: 1-Monthly column in the newletter for the synagogue or the school. 2-Go through the children's section and take out the books that pertain to an upcoming holiday put them in a holiday box (this is a cardboard box that you have wrapped in pretty paper and put a label on). Have a box for each appropriate age group. 3-Every other month do a book review in you column. I was amazed at how many people read that column. 4-Put in the synagogue announcements about things like Hebrew Book week, Jewish Geneology Week, etc. 5-Make announcements about new acquisitions to the library and make sure you remember to the the donor. 6-Make sure that your hours are convenient. Since you are Conservative, does your synagogue object to you opening up after services on Shabbat? 7-Have the school come over say on a quarterly basis to tour the library. Find out what they are studying ahead of time and take those books out to show them to the student. 8-Have a program called something like Storytime or the Pajama Parables where the little ones can come in their PJs and listen to a storyteller or to a story and look at the pictures. The parents can then take them straight home and to bed.
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