Library at the Concert Hall: an Interdisciplinary Library Outreach Strategy for Unexpected Spaces

This poster highlights strategies for staging pop-up libraries aligned with campus events. The presenters share perspectives on connecting with campus affiliates and community members at performing arts venues at two separate institutions, and share longitudinal data that illustrates the value of this outreach strategy for engaging a range of potential library users. Attendees will explore ideas for highlighting connections between potential visitors’ interests and library collections, and discover strategies for collaborating with library colleagues across disciplines to meet these needs. Participants will learn methods for leveraging this flexible approach to fit their own capacity and collection parameters. Objective 1: Explore innovative approaches to sharing library resources with event attendees from the campus and wider communities with the goal of connecting with an expanded base of potential library users. Objective 2: Identify strategies to collaborate with library colleagues across disciplines in order to incorporate broad and diverse perspectives, experience, and expertise into outreach work. Objective 3: Discover free and low-cost ways to leverage existing collections materials and outreach workflows in order to spark user interest in engaging with the library.