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How To Track Your Library’s Social Media Stats
Your library keeps reference stats, right? Your library has a gate count, correct? Why do you keep these statistics? The reason is because you want to measure how much your services are getting used....
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Nice Librarians Finish Last?
via Luke Mayes on flickr Who normally gets the girl? The guy who helps senior citizens cross the street or the dude on the motorcycle? I surmise that the guy on the motorcycle gets more attention and...
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It’s All About Appearances
In Borders the other day I happened upon this display. Glancing at it, I figured “oh, looks like they’re hocking the Twilight books pretty hard still.” But on closer inspection, that wasn’t the whole...
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An Elevator Pitch for Your Library
You have to risk making a fool of yourself At Champlain College there is an annual elevator pitch competition. Students compete against their classmates for cash, honing their networking and rhetoric...
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Library Services Finding Users Via Social Media
About two months ago I wrote a post called Ambient Awareness in Twitter for Reference. I came up with the idea of setting up targeted search alerts in order to capture questions that people didn’t even...
View ArticleLibrary Thinker Series: How do we get non-users to become users?
This post is a part of the Library Thinker Series where we examine some of the larger questions that we struggle with in librarianship and try to come to some insights together. This week we’re...
View ArticleBut What Can You Do With It?
Do you ever have tours come through your library and the tour guide starts talking about the impressive amount of resources you have? “We have 50,000 books, 60,000 e-books and thousands of online...
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How Libraries Can Leverage Twitter
Twitter has been working pretty well at our library. It is coming up on two years since our first tweet. I have been thinking a lot lately about how we use Twitter and our successes and shortcomings...
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Courses I Wish They’d Offered in Library School
I’ve been a librarian now for about three and a half years. I learned a lot while at SLIS at UW-Madison, and there were some awesome professors there. A couple of the most valuable classes I took were...
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Human-Centered Librarianship
I found a library marketing button in my drawer the other day that said “More than Books… Our Library has it All!” It depicts a VHS tape, a floppy disk, an audio cassette, and a CD. I’m guessing that...
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