Smart Librarians

September 8, 2016

Every Thursday, you’ll get this short, fun, relevant newsletter. It will contain a quote or smile about the library and those who love it, an idea you can use to promote your library or reading in general, and an occasional shameless plug for the programs I offer. Enjoy! 

If you are new to us or have missed any previous issues, you can read them all at www.smartlibrarians.com. And please tell your friends about it!

In this issue:

Zoo Atlanta Educator Day!

Quotable

READ Posters –Starring YOU!

Time’s running out!

Zoo Atlanta Educator Day!

Zoo Atlanta is having their Fall Educator Appreciation Day on Saturday, September 17, 2016. Educators receive FREE admission (educator ID required) and $2 OFF general admission for accompanying guests. Visit the Educator’s Lounge in the Ford Tent from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to receive your coupon for 10% off gift shops and food outlets.

Quotable!

Librarians are there:

To help, aid, assist. To teach, collate, enthuse. To catalogue, index, arrange, organize. To find, discover, promote, display. To interest, intrigue, amuse and amaze. To instill wonder. To help children, adults, old people, the underprivileged, the rich, the poor, those with voices and those without. To protect resources, to archive them, to store them, to save them for the future. To provide differing viewpoints, to engender thought, conversation, research, fun. To provide the best answer possible, to match the answer to the enquirer, to provide just enough information without overwhelming the user, but enough to always help. To better a local community, a company, a college, an organization, a country, the world.

Google is there: To make money.

- Phil Bradley

Encouraging reading – from 45 Ideas in 45 Minutes – Promote Reading

9. Design and print READ posters for top readers, classes, administration, and staff with favorite books. I have designed a series of READ type posters you can use for your top readers and others in the school. I usually print these 11X17 so they are big enough to see, but affordable. If your school doesn’t have a large format color printer, most big office supply stores run specials so that an 11X17 color copy of one of these posters is less than $2.00.

If you’d like to have the templates, send me an e-mail at tommy@tommyjohnspresents.com and I’ll send them along with directions on how to insert your photos into the poster.

Time is running out to book at last year’s pricing!

Earlier this year, I worked with a REAL web designer and upgraded my website, www.TommyJohnsPresents.com. And when I did that, I raised my prices for the first time since 2005! But here’s a deal for folks who read the WHOLE newsletter. If you book any programs for any time in the 2016-17 school year, you get the old pricing! All you have to do is send me an email and say “I want the old price!” The only catch is that you must contact me to book the program before my birthday on September 12, 2016. That’s when this offer expires. The program can be scheduled for any day this year, but you must book it in the next 5 days. (BTW, the old pricing is $875 for a full day of programs and $550 for a half day.)

Let me know how I can help! See you next week!

“WOW!  Tommy Johns is fantastic! Through magic, puppets, games, music and lots of volunteers from the audience, his enthusiastic personality encourages students to be READERS.”

Janie B. Vaden, Media Specialist, Dalton, GA

Encouraging kids to read, I am
Tommy Johns
Educational Entertainment Specialist

PS – Don’t forget to share this newsletter and blog with your colleagues!

www.TommyJohnsPresents.com 
tommy@tommyjohnspresents.com
Call 770-315-3339 or Toll Free at (866) 490-READ
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