#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jul 232018 - 8:30pm ET

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TOPIC

Marketing library services

Marketing and outreach are mega important to a library in this day and age, and they can be hard things to do. So let's have a chat to talk about that. Good marketing and outreach can exponentially increase the impact of your services and programs. Here's an archived webinar to watch before the chat on 4 simple way to beef up your library marketing. Libraries are Essential has put together a list of marketing resources. Here's another piece called Tips for marketing the 21st-century library. And lastly, don't forget to check out the PLA's marketing strategies guide.

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QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Share one way you have creatively marketed library services. How did that work out?

Q2 What tools/resources do you turn to in order to market library services?

Q3 What challenges have you encountered when marketing library services?

Q4 What advice can you share on marketing library services?

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#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Jul 19 2018 - 8:30pm ET

TOPIC

POST CONFERENCE CHAT!

Iiiiiiit's conference chat time!! That's right folks, it is indeed that time of year again. The time of year where we run our annual feature to help those of you who went to either SLA Annual or ALA Annual share what you learned with your colleagues who for whatever reason could not/did not attend. This way those of us who were #ALAleftbehind/#SLAleftbehind can still can some benefits from those sweet, sweet sessions, panels, and presentations. (I may or may not have been watching a lot of YouTube shows before writing this intro...I also may or may not have read the entire paragraph out loud as I was typing it...I admit nothing.)

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While you're here please consider checking out our new feature for 2018: #LISPROCHAT Reads, our professional development book club. The next book club session will be running next Monday, August 27, at 8:30 pm ET.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1 Did you go to a conference this year? If yes, what conference and what was your reason for attending?  If not, why not?

Q2 What are your takeaways from  #SLA2018 or #ALAAC18 or other conferences and what did you enjoy the most?

Q3 Tell us about someone who you’ve met at #SLA2018 or #ALAAC18or other conferences and why are they awesome?

Q4 What did you like least/what you’d like to see change about #SLA2018 or #ALAAC18 or other conferences for next year?

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