Open Ticket was developed by a team of Branching Out librarians working with Opening the Book and Book Communications Ltd. 

Concept

To use the idea of travel, real or imagined, to promote books from around the world.

Aims

• To introduce readers to the delights of world literature and to engage them in debates about reading, identity and diversity.
• To create a model for a national reading promotion through libraries which can be adapted to use for different purposes.
• To increase library staff knowledge and confidence in selecting and promoting books in translation.
• To create and deliver a training programme which supports library staff in learning to promote fiction from other parts of the world.

Click here to visit the Open Ticket website, containing promotional ideas, a programme for a staff training session, contact details of publishers and useful organisations and a booklist.