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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Promotions
My Library, My Lifeline
The Cecil County Public Library recently ran an awareness campaign called My Library, My Lifeline, which involved creating a logo. Now they are making the logo available to members of the library community: They ask that the logo’s use be … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Event, Groups, Libraries, Licensing, Promotions
Tagged Cecil County Public Library, creative commons, Libraries, Library, license, Logo, promotions
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Sponsor a Magazine
The Lepper Library in Lisbon, Ohio has initiated a new program to deal with severe budget cuts: they are asking their users to help out by sponsoring magazine subscriptions. This is a creative and interesting way to help maintain and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, News, Periodicals, Promotions
Tagged Lepper Library, Library, magazines, Ohio, Periodicals, Save Ohio Libraries
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Free Starbucks Coffee Recipes
Coffee and Libraries go together (at least for some of us who are addicts of both). That is why the Free Starbucks Coffee Recipe E-Book (direct link to zipped Pdf file) is a nifty download brought to you by CoffeeFair. … Continue reading
Free L’Amour
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Louis L’Amour, Bantam Books is providing a free copy of “Education of a Wandering Man : The Centennial Hardcover Edition” to any free lending library in the United States. found via the Unshelved blog
Posted in Books, Libraries, Promotions, Publishing
Tagged Bantam Books, Louis L\'Amour, United States
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Marketing Your Library
Marketing Your Library is a blog chock full of ideas, lists, and links for marketing, you know, your library! from LISNews
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Promotions
Tagged marketing, Marketing Your Library, Your Library, Your Library Marketing Your Library
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Suitcase Libraries
There is a post on LISNews today about “Suitcase Libraries” in South Africa. These are basically small book collections in suitcases which are distributed to preschools to help encourage reading in areas with low literacy. The original article is here. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Promotions
Tagged Lighthouse Service, South Africa
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Get your motor runnin’…
Where can us library types get our temporary tattoo fix? No need to head out on that highway, just take a gander at Archie McFee! Could be a good promotional idea for a library…. from Librarian.net
Posted in Humor, Libraries, Promotions
Tagged Archie McFee, Librarian.net
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Programming on a budget
Coming on the heels of my previous post is an article about just the sort of creativity I referred to, although it deals with programming rather than marketing. Isn’t it better to get attention from activities than simply promoting, though? … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Promotions
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Marketing your Academic Library
ALA’s ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) has posted an interesting article called “Developing a long-range and outreach plan for your academic library: The need for a marketing outreach plan“. It describes a series of promotional activities to market … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Promotions, Training, Web Design
Tagged College & Research Libraries;, e-newsletter, USD, Web hosting services
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