We held our first ever Blind Date with a Book program in February to celebrate National Library Lovers Month. Blind Date with a Book programs have been part of library programming since at least the late 1990s (Alberge, 1997), but there has been a resurgence in the past few years with crafty librarians creating eye-catching displays to entice reluctant readers to take a book home with them.
With so few people visiting our building in the time of COVID, we adapted the program to an online environment using a Google form to ask participants about what they would like to read:
A few brave souls chose the "Surprise me!" option, meaning they had no say in their book except to choose between getting a link to an ebook or picking up a physical book at the library.
Although the program ended in February, we wanted to share the books we sent out on blind dates (all links lead to ebooks unless noted otherwise):
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Sources: Alberge, D. (1997, November 3). Readers urged to flirt with a library blind date. The Times.
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