MCN on display!!!!

[Jojo]

Originally Posted by Bec259

I would have been over the moon if I saw something like that - I would have been telling everyone who walked past me the name of each nappy!

Yes!! I feel like going back there today, sitting next to it and trying to recruit people

[Bec259]

Originally Posted by mylenna

Yes!! I feel like going back there today, sitting next to it and trying to recruit people

That's not a silly idea yk? Although, the library ladies might look at you strangely

[Lousmum]

Originally Posted by mylenna

I was walking out of my local library tonight and what should I come upon in the foyer?

A display case full of MCN

I was so excited I even took a photo with my phone

My DS saw a cow print nappy in there and now tells me we HAVE to get one for Laila hehe!

Anyhoo it was so good to see it there (complete with lots of pamphlets for people to take) and hopefully it will sway a few more Mums to give it a go.

hee hee! when I saw the title of the thread I thought "wonder if that could be my display?"

It's not as good as the one I've had in there last year, but I was in a rush. Some of the stuff in there belongs to me (including the cow print with the tail ) just to pad out the advocacy kit a bit too. Last time all the brochures were taken and then some, so fingers crossed it attracts as many people this time around.

The display will be there until the end of Feb.

There's also a display of posters on the environmental benefits of reusable nappies, which is up in the foyer of the council chambers (just up the stairs near the library for anyone who knows the library). That just went up yesterday. Hopefully that attracts some interest too!

[Lousmum]

Originally Posted by Big Green Frog

I wonder if our library would be up for a MCN display???

don't see why not Wems. all you can do is ask! this library has changing displays all the time. I'm going to book another MCN display for later in the year also, and I'm looking at other libraries too. Just ask and you might be surprised!

[Wems]

Originally Posted by Lousmum

don't see why not Wems. all you can do is ask! this library has changing displays all the time. I'm going to book another MCN display for later in the year also, and I'm looking at other libraries too. Just ask and you might be surprised!

Yeah I will check it out

Not even sure if they have some where for it to be displayed

i will let you know how I go and if I get a yes I will be asking you for the dos and don'ts

I probbaly have a few things here I could do with out for month or 2 or 3

[minime]

Well Done Kim....would love some tips on how you approached them! Be great to get around to all the libraries!!

[hayley79]

WTG!!!
That is so cool!!

[Lousmum]

Originally Posted by minime

Well Done Kim....would love some tips on how you approached them! Be great to get around to all the libraries!!

I went to the front desk and asked!

actually, it was suggested to me originally by a contact within the council who was helping me with some displays/events for last years RNW that the glass cases outside the library were available for displays of stuff like this (I had no idea before, but always wondered how people got stuff into those cases). So I just contacted the library, found out when they had an opening for one of their cases, and booked it in! I discovered that a lot of libraries do the same thing, so you just have to go find out when they are available and make a booking.

They probably wouldn't allow anything on a commercial basis (ie, you couldn't promote your business in it) but they are more geared to community groups/events type things, so an MCN advocacy display fits perfectly.

[bilbylove]

it's just dawned on me why i've been confused.

REUSABLE NAPPY WEEK = October THIS year
Downunder Nappy Hunt = March THIS year

i think they must have been on previously maybe in the same month, so in my head (full of cotton wool!) i associated them to be TOGETHER, on at same time.

i remembered SOMETHING was on during October, so it's RNW.

Hearing the display was up, made me think i was wrong, and RNW really WAS going to be on in March - made sense to put up a "teaser" one month before.

The year i became pregnant, i found out about RNW on the Monday AFTER it had been on for a week. Lots of great activities, even a DIY sewing workshop! things i was so cross to have missed.

That's a good idea to think of things in your own stash, that you could live without for a bit, to put in a display. Locked in a glass cabinet, going to be pretty darn safe.

I think i could whizz up labels on a piece of cardboard, descriptors for each MCN item, but are there big glossy posters, to put BEHIND the display, something to grab people's attention from a distance? Is this type of thing only available to whoever has the advocacy kit for that state at the time, or can other people do their versions (using their own MCN) but with some advocacy posters from - i guess, somewhere like ModernCLothNappies?

would like to do it, but would like to do it well, (weight of responsibility, don't want to represent MCN badly).

just thinking outloud.

[milasmum]

oooh you know what? Randwick library would be perfect! The early childhood centre is just inside it