Film is bigger draw than library

The hype and hoopla that accompanied the opening of Disney’s $180 million movie, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” helped make it the top-grossing film of the weekend. Alas, inside Room 225 of San Jose’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, there were plenty of empty seats Sunday.

Only a dozen or so people gathered to learn more about the classic children’s tale published half a century ago by C.S. Lewis. More From Mercury News.

December 14, 2005 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. GregS* says:
    December 14, 2005 at 8:39 pm

    PR dept.
    1. It takes hype and hoopla to get people to come to library programs too.

    2. The movie just opened. Either do the program before it opens or a few weeks after it opens but doing it the weekend it opens is self-defeating.

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  2. hollysue says:
    December 15, 2005 at 2:14 am

    Re:PR dept.
    I agree – you have to get the word out there.

    My library started a Read It Forward program using The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in late November, I think it was. The closer we got to the movie release date (and since it was released), the demand has increased a bunch.

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