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How To Create a Marketing Plan for an Entire Year Even if Your Library’s Strategic Plan Sucks or Is Non-Existent!

Super Library Marketing

If you’re like me, you do some strategic planning when you go on a trip. You purchase airline or train tickets and book a hotel. Marketing for a library works best when the promotions are tied to a library’s overall strategic plan. What is the difference between a strategic plan and a marketing plan?

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The Top 13 Places To Find Library Content To Share When You’re Tired and Overworked (Bookmark This Post!)

Super Library Marketing

Your original content, like blog posts, videos, newsletters, and social media posts that talk about what your library offers and how your library helps your community, must be as engaging as possible. Shouldn’t you take every opportunity to engage your followers with your library’s stuff? That would be ideal.

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Call for Chapters: Data Culture in Academic Libraries - ACRL Book - Deadline January 30 @ALA_ACRL

A Library Writer's Blog

We are excited to invite chapter proposals for our forthcoming ACRL book, Data culture in academic libraries: A practical guide to building communities, partnerships, and collaborations, with an anticipated publication date of winter 2024. Data instruction: Innovative ways to teach data retrieval, management, etc.,

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I Spent 3 Hours in a Room Full of Curious and Committed Library Staff: Here Are the 4 Things I Learned From Them!

Super Library Marketing

We don’t give our employees the time to work through strategic planning. Difficulty getting people to take an action, like place a hold or register for a program after they engage with marketing. We should be proud of: Our social media engagement. You can also join the Library Marketing Book Club. There is no rest.

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10 New Infographic Ideas To Prove the Value and Power of Your Library

Super Library Marketing

Explain Your Strategic Plan An infographic is an engaging way to easily explain the complex information contained in most library strategic plans. When they get to the branch to attend the program, they may pick up a cookbook from a book display.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

For the next several months I’ll be concentrating on writing the fifth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. From the very first edition I have emphasized that strategic thinking, acting, and learning matter most, not any particular approach to strategic planning.

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4 Things You'll Learn About Data, Leadership + Budgeting at the CPBB 2016 (Un)Conference!

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Last year NRC engaged at our 2015 conference (and is a sponsor of the 2016 conference). Understanding citizen priorities and perspectives should be a valued contributor to strategic planning and should define the true purpose of local government in their community. See this link for our full conference program!