Open House

Tonight the library sponsored an open house for the RWC students. We set up our table on the plaza outside, set out a few helium mylar balloons, populated the table with "Free Stuff" and encouraged everyone to explore the exotic places in our new building.

For the brave and adventurous, we offered a passport that they could take around to eight different places where we had strategically located staff who could tell them about some unique aspect of the building. We created powerpoint 1 minute shows that we mounted on digital picture frames, and once they had viewed the powerpoint and spoken with the staff person, they got their passport stamped.

For everyone who got some of the 8 stamps, we gave a free highlighter with the library name printed on it or a memo clip with the library logo. For those who got all 8 stamps, they put their passport in a box for the drawing for a free iPod.

For a Wednesday evening with little PR, we got well over 100 students to come through, gave away all the candy and popcorn, and a lot of red pencils with our logo on it, and in general talked with a lot more people who didn't have time to come in then because they had a class or needed to squeeze in dinner between meetings.

75 entered the drawing. For the first time doing an open house, I consider it pretty successful. We reached 100+ out of 1800 students. Might have been as high as 1%. All things considered, not a bad beginning.