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CFP: Request for Speakers: Libraries in Unexpected Places – 2025 ALA LHRT Research Forum (Library History Round Table)

A Library Writer's Blog

From lighthouses and artists studios to mobile book vans and digital platforms, libraries continue to evolve, offering knowledge and resources in creative and unconventional settings. The forum aims to highlight historical studies of library outreach and development, including 20th and 21st-century topics.

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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 must make print collateral, send emails, schedule social media posts, attend meetings, make press releases, do outreach events, and then attend more meetings. We’re building houses without foundations. You can also join the Library Marketing Book Club. Library marketers need time to think. We are all doing too much.

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How One Library Marketer Transformed a Library Website: See the Stunning Before and After!

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“I went to a new concept charter school in downtown Winston Salem that was housed in the basement of an office building,” explains Megan. We even got to decorate our own cotton tote bags to use carting our book finds back and forth. “I The school didn’t have many amenities, like a gym or library.”

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Bus stops as neighborhood focal points and opportunities for placemaking

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston is promoting digital library access at 20 bus stops (" Borrowing books on the bus? Libraries in places like Orange County, California and Calgary have put in book lending stations at transit stations in their communities for more than a decade. It’s happening in Boston ," Boston Globe ). It's not particularly pathbreaking.

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Turn Library Promotions on Their Head with This Surefire Yet Simple Way To Capture Attention

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The Library’s Outreach Team has been working with Guernsey Prison for several years to provide books and readers’ advisory support for people convicted of crimes on the island. Housing your story on your website has an added benefit. Another option is to create a landing page on your website and post your story.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

First, if the grant writer is in-house, she’ll know your institution’s policies and procedures related to grant development. The second advantage of having an in-house grant writer is financial: If you need to hire a grant writer, you may find it to be prohibitively expensive. Robertson, Stephen W.

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Call for Presentations — GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2024 (Virtual and in-person) - Washington, DC - October 10th, 2024

A Library Writer's Blog

The 2024 conference will be held in the spectacular City View Room, on GW's Foggy Bottom campus, with views of the National Mall, White House, and Capital Building. Presenters who are unable to travel to the conference site are able to present virtually.