Currently, that includes promoting upcoming Loan Stars-eligible titles in our Loan Stars CataList catalogues, which are available to logged in library users from the home page. These catalogues are created roughly five months before pub date, so we encourage publishers to add titles to CataList around the same time. Please ensure a cover is included, even if it's not the final cover, along with a description and basic bibliographic information, such as the ISBN, title, main contributor, publishing imprint (if applicable), and the intended publication date. "Spotlight On" newslettersOnce a month, we ask publishers to tell us which books of theirs would make fantastic Loan Stars picks. We take these 4-6 books and create a special catalogue for them on CataList, as well as give our "spotlighter" free rein to tell library staff why they should recommend these titles (in 75 words or less). All that's required is a photo and the filling out of this form: https://forms.gle/j3JNsFuG1L1ETESb6If you have any questions or concerns, especially about scheduling, please get in touch with the Loan Stars team. But there is so much more that can be done. And that's where you, the publisher, come in. We suggest "championing a book" by identifying a single title each month (or the months that include your releases) and encouraging library followers to get out and recommend for it for Loan Stars. This can include reaching out via newsletter, social media, author events, launches, etc. Though we find the most effective method is to offer and deliver reading copies early and quickly. |