Proactive Marketing for the New and Experienced Library Director

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Proactive Marketing for New and Experienced Library Directors: Going beyond the gate count
3. Copyright
4. Contents (1/2)
5. Contents (2/2)
6. List of figures and tables
7. About the authors
8. Acknowledgments
9. List of acronyms
10. Preface
    1. Proactive marketing and the current situation
    2. Ineffective, passive marketing: a failure at academic libraries
    3. Proactive marketing as active marketing for the academic library
    4. Using this book: an overview
    5. About this book’s readership
11. 1 So you’ve inherited an academic library: promotion through physical space
    1. New director visions and the academic library as a building
    2. The learning commons is not the universal answer
    3. Repurposing furniture and proactive marketing
    4. Paying attention to the academic library’s large-scale features
    5. Valuing the library space as physical space
    6. Beyond fixtures and materials
    7. You’ve also inherited people
    8. Breaking down the four-wall isolation
    9. Conclusions
    10. References
12. 2 The academic library as an educational system
    1. Academic libraries within parent institutions: getting on the same page
    2. Keeping up with political and ethical situations
    3. The academic library as a premier learner-centered environment
    4. What kind of academic library and educational system am I inheriting?
    5. Accountability and (or versus?) education
    6. Conclusions
    7. References
13. 3 Your virtual presence should not go virtually ignored: the library website
    1. Relationship to marketing
    2. Potential for marketing
    3. Marketing principle 1: make sure it works
    4. Marketing principle 2: display it like they say it
    5. Marketing principle 3: link-happy sites make users unhappy
    6. Role of the director
    7. Marketing to the academic researcher
    8. Conclusions
    9. References
14. 4 From Facebook to face-to-face: getting your “friends” into the library
    1. The digital native conundrum
    2. More than photos of kittens and food: Facebook as communication
    3. The advantages
    4. Our avatars, ourselves
    5. Conclusions
    6. References
15. 5 Virtual spaces and virtual messages: social media as marketing
    1. Joining the multiplayer set
    2. The cloud (within the silver lining): ethical concerns
    3. Chatting and learning: proprietary software and IM as teaching methods
    4. If no one chats, did the library make a sound?
    5. Reach out and teach someone: RSS feeds, podcasts, and remote conferencing
    6. They like to watch: being there for students virtually
    7. Extra! Extra! Read all about it: RSS feeds
    8. Promoting the library with fun and games: Second Life
    9. Conclusions
    10. References
16. 6 Engaging students through the arts and humanities: meaningful programming
    1. Meaningful, accessible, and assessable programming as proactive marketing
    2. An existing problem: where have all the students gone?
    3. Forgetting the academic librarian as information specialist
    4. Answering to personalized and individualized needs
    5. Academic library programming and the engaged library director
    6. That initial spark: planning for programming as proactive marketing in the humanities
    7. Preliminary planning for academic library programming
    8. Using a liaison model to establish academic library programming
    9. Academic and institutional purpose and identity
    10. Materials, funding, and logistics
    11. Assessment
    12. Librarians as teachers
    13. Programming as the academic library’s learner-centered activity
    14. Conclusions
    15. References
17. 7 Getting students back into the library: “Beats and Bongos” lead them to books
    1. The Publicity and Public Relations Committee and marketing the academic library
    2. Marketing problems before PaPR was established
    3. Successful efforts prior to PaPR
    4. Further preliminary research for the Beats and Bongos program
    5. Early planning
    6. Publicity for the program
    7. Beats and Bongos in the subsequent years and the Holy Librarians
    8. The structure of a typical Beats and Bongos program
    9. Assessment of programming: marketing your academic library for a song
    10. Conclusions
    11. References
18. 8 Librarians in the laboratory: partnered programming in the sciences and social sciences
    1. Reaching out first
    2. The embedded librarian idea (modified)
    3. Critical thinking and programming for sciences and social sciences
    4. Thank you, Mr Wizard, Bill Nye – science guy, Carl Sagan, and Dick Feynman: making science cool through popular scientists
    5. Cultivating creative rhizomes: offering the STEM fields some creative stimuli and outlets
    6. Giving business some culture: academic library programming with a global emphasis
    7. Engaging marketing students to market the academic library
    8. Conclusions
    9. References
19. 9 Using visually oriented special collections materials to engage the community: documents, figurines, high-definition movie still, clothing, and photography
    1. Special collections and identity
    2. Waking up to having accessible special collections
    3. The donors’ relation to “beautiful things”
    4. Stuff, wonderful stuff: the allure of visually oriented special collections materials
    5. Proactive marketing, policy-making, and the rapport between librarian and researcher
    6. Ideas for proactively marketing academic libraries through their visually oriented special collections
    7. Finding aids and making visually oriented special collections materials accessible
    8. Conclusions
    9. References
20. 10 Using special collections materials and creating learning centers to engage the community: historic instruments, films, tools, and toys
    1. Some solutions to wasted space and resources in academic libraries
    2. Access to collections is teaching and can shape the curriculum
    3. Academic librarians as teachers and bureaucratic red tape
    4. A world of pure imagination, with a little help from the teacher/librarian
    5. The librarian’s interdisciplinary perspective and teaching
    6. Teaching with artifacts and online materials
    7. Grant administration, proactive marketing, and teaching in librarian-directed learning centers: our own experience
    8. Learning centers and transformative knowledge
    9. Learning centers and media coverage
    10. Conclusions
    11. References
21. 11 Collegiality and collaboration: marketing the library – and its librarians – to faculty
    1. Lost in translation, loss of engagement
    2. Library faculty status is relevant to successful marketing
    3. We have an image problem: its roots and consequences
    4. Collaboration, collegiality, consistency
    5. The librarian is the library
    6. Collaborators matter: librarians as collaborative scholars
    7. Being interdisciplinary means getting out
    8. The role of the director
    9. Conclusions
    10. References
22. 12 Reports and rapport: marketing the library to all stakeholders
    1. Revealing “the man behind the curtain”
    2. Putting it in writing
    3. Formalizing it
    4. Crafting a marketable strategic plan
    5. Being part of recruitment and retention
    6. WOMMing up to marketing
    7. Getting librarians involved: walking the walk and talking the talk
    8. Making service part of marketing: here comes the library!
    9. Benefiting: you can’t buy that kind of press
    10. Aspiring to a higher profile lowers marketing hurdles
    11. Conclusions
    12. References
23. Conclusion
    1. References
24. Index