Archive for the 'Public Relations' Category
BPL: The Ultimate Search Engine
October 28th, 2008AdWeek – “Though libraries may increasingly become relics in the Google-driven Web 2.0 era, Allen & Gerritsen positions the Boston Public Library system as the ultimate search engine and portrays its librarians as “heroes of information” in a new campaign.”
Great poster if you follow the link.
Library Mini Golf
September 15th, 2008The Centered Librarian – “One of the more innovative methods of fund raising for libraries is Library Mini Golf!”
Makeover @ the Library:
September 12th, 2008The Last Librarian – “And public libraries don’t just need a brush-up, we need the works. From interpersonal communication to public relations, libraries need to make a renewed effort to sell our services. I refuse to be the yard sale of information services. Make them laugh, make them smile, make them leave saying “wow!â€
Not just [...]
Library scofflaw: ‘They were good books’
August 25th, 2008MSNBC.com – "Pay your library fines — or you could wind up like Heidi Dalibor"
Don’t you just love this great PR for public libraries. Oy!
More on Late Fees
December 26th, 2007Tongue in Cheek blog post? – “Good for those librarians, teaching people not to take them for granted! They put up with so much between the loud-talkers and the book vandals, they should play hardball.”
This story really is taking off. It could be good PR if spun the right way. Kami, David, how [...]
PR Hacks
December 5th, 2007Shel Israel has had enough.
Me too. I get pitched all the time by people who have no idea who I am nor what I do. It’s embarrassing for all of us. (via)
743 PR Feeds
November 28th, 2007Pretty substantial number, although I think the librar* community has more. Walt?
More on the AALL “Selling Law Librarianship” Article
November 15th, 2007James Mullan – “Firstly I wouldn’t trust the person on the front cover to sell me anything, then there are some of the suggestions for building a set of skills for making you more effective. Some of these are very good (I’ll come on to these later) but some are just bizzare and I’d love [...]
