Marketing Library Services and Materials

On A Budget

 

Mainly For Free

 

A word on definitions: marketing – advertising – merchandizing

 

* Marketing – who does it?.

 

* Planning – the marketing plan.

 

* Email is your friend – direct marketing to self-selected consumers. 

 

* What’s on your webpage? New Acquisitions?  Library Services?  FAQ?  Library News?.

 

* Blogs: The FIND campaign and its fate…  

 

* Showing off – displaying New Books.  And some notes about Prime Real Estate

          (or, What’s Inside your Front Door?).

 

* Some thoughts on seasonality and relevance, a look at Hot Topics.

 

* Marketing and the Impulse Buy.

 

* More on the impulse buy: things they didn’t even know that they wanted

 

* The power of persuasion:  The Staff Recommends, and What do we read?

 

*Publications: newsletters, newspapers (Student Voice), and community publications.

 

* The peripatetic Librarian – wireless and the library without walls

Conclusion:

         

          The Numbers Game: Assessment, Budget, and Man-hours

Bibliography:

Elliot de Saez, Eileen.  Marketing Concepts For Libraries And Information Services.

Siess, Judith.  The Visible Librarian: Asserting Your Value with Marketing and Advocacy.

Stevens, Mark.  Your Marketing Sucks.

Underhill, Paco.  Call Of The Mall.

Wolfe, Lisa.  Library Public Relations, Promotions, and Communications.