LibX marketing ideas

I’ll be presenting a quick song & dance about LibX (along with Tim Knight at York U and Sally Wilson at Ryerson) in Toronto at Scholars Portal Day on Friday, December 12th. My current area of interest (an quite possibly the topic of my presentation) will be about LibX assessment, and so my 5 min of fame will probably focus on this.

But what I’ve really been having a lot of fun with over the past few days is coming up with marketing ideas for LibX. There are the standard ideas, like linking it from the library homepage, having a library ‘news’ item, mounting it on public workstations, etc.But I see marketing as a real excuse to be silly.  Here are a couple of ideas that probably need some tinkering as they step on some serious copyright.

LibX movie/MMO poster:

This poster was created using BigHugeLabs/Flickr/Poster maker. It’s a a spin off the Dutch film BenX. That’s my Lineage II dwarf character Hamsun, following our successful siege and pwnage of Aden Castle. (Note: URL does not exist.)

LibX in Empire Strikes Back stickers:

For those of you who are already offering LibX to your patrons, how did you go about marketing this wonderful little device?