New York City public librarians Jenny and Frank talk about the benefits of guerilla marketing your library to the general public and offer some helpful tips about the best way to get the attention of wary and busy pedestrians. I chose this podcast because it is a realistic look at the difficulties and rewards of doing a simple outreach activity.
Jenny and Frank reflect on library street outreach
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjOJgvkL4y4
I found this link by searching you tube under the keywords "Public Library Outreach Podcast."
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Competency 2-Are outreach services dead?- another blog about my topic
This blogger, the author of In the Library with the Lead Pipe,finds a new way to think of library outreach service. I accessed this blog through Technorati. I included this blog because it contains a fresh perspective on library outreach.
http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/outreach-is-undead/s.
We need to lay rest to outreach’s physical body–that separate entity that comprises library departments and ancillary programs. As well we need to lay to rest the word “outreach,” whose separate existence inhibits and deters us from doing what we as libraries, librarians, and information professionals should be doing. Instead of integrating library promotion, advocacy, and community-specific targeted services, we have left “outreach” outside of the inclusive library whole to be an afterthought, a department more likely to get cut, or work function of only a few, such as your subject librarians. If we kill this notion, if we consider the word and the separate entity of outreach as dead, we are more likely to be able to embrace and participate in activities formerly known as outreach and incorporate this essential part of our jobs into our daily work routine.
http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/outreach-is-undead/s.
We need to lay rest to outreach’s physical body–that separate entity that comprises library departments and ancillary programs. As well we need to lay to rest the word “outreach,” whose separate existence inhibits and deters us from doing what we as libraries, librarians, and information professionals should be doing. Instead of integrating library promotion, advocacy, and community-specific targeted services, we have left “outreach” outside of the inclusive library whole to be an afterthought, a department more likely to get cut, or work function of only a few, such as your subject librarians. If we kill this notion, if we consider the word and the separate entity of outreach as dead, we are more likely to be able to embrace and participate in activities formerly known as outreach and incorporate this essential part of our jobs into our daily work routine.
Blog Intro-Real Life Outreach for Public Libraries
Many public libraries have Flickr pages,twitter accounts,myspace and facebook accounts and a presence in Second Life. Let other bloggers and library students talk about how these efforts are bringing in the already tech-savvy patrons into the library. I am not interested in talking about the shiniest new application or gadget. Instead, I want to talk about the foot soldiers of the public library world involved in the simplest yet most effective form of contact: face-to- face conversations and connections with future adult patrons in such diverse real-life settings as jails and street fairs.
I want to find examples of their hardwork and discuss new programs that we can all learn from.
I want to find examples of their hardwork and discuss new programs that we can all learn from.
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