Promoting e-books and digital resources is essential for the future of libraries. Reader’s advisories that include demographically proportioned diverse backgrounds and that include all subgenres are more important methods for staying relevant and accessible to all populations. Collection management must also stay up to date in libraries of all kinds especially e-books, and research search engines.
Librarian created book-trailers are great tools to make books more relevant for tweens. Making digital advertisements of books makes books more accessible to today’s and future tweens. I would also add that diversifying and increasing numbers of books in library collections of free e-books will keep libraries popular. There are also tons of digital audiobooks, and ever increasing numbers of streaming websites being used at public and school libraries. If an e-book is available and free it just might be as popular then a book you have to pay for. The current problem to me is the lack of supply of e-books, having only one copy available for thousands of potential e-book readers and having waiting lists of dozens and dozens of people will make fewer and fewer people try free e-books at libraries.
