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CHICAGO — Make your library building become a more exciting, interesting, experiential space where people are engaged and want to spend time with Elisabeth Doucett’s new book “,” published by 91��ý Editions. More time spent in the library increases the library’s value and relevance to its users—and the more intriguing the space is, the more it helps draw in new patrons. Taking inspiration and examples from companies and non-profits outside the library world, this book’s engaging ideas include:

• using “biophilic design” to bring nature into your library through gardens, plants, and greenery;
• transforming static spaces into “Instagram bait”;
• putting art installations in bathrooms;
• turning underutilized spaces like hallways and mezzanines into welcoming “chill” zones;
• creating pop-ups and other flexible spaces that change regularly;
• developing co-working spaces in libraries;
• preserving and promoting silent spaces; and
• creating “parklets” from parking spaces.

Doucett is director of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. Her strategy and marketing proficiencies were developed over more than a decade spent in the consumer packaged goods industry as a marketing director at Quaker Oats and Dunkin' Donuts and as a brand manager at Kraft Foods in the Maxwell House Coffee Division. She is also the author of “,” “,” and “.”

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