Check it out: Library’s summer reading program for kids is in the works is in the works Read More Library hosting ‘Food for Fines’ program this month Read More Library Services in the Digital Age Read More Library adds online magazine check-outs Read More Weber County Library gets tech-savvy Read More More users as libraries […]
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Library News: Library services go on-line, Survey shows U.S. still values libraries, Library to get New Inter-Library System
Checking out technology: E-readers at Adair County library Read More The greening of public libraries Read More Tacoma Public Libraries Mobile App Read More ALA Honors Five Libraries for Offering ‘Cutting-Edge’ Technologies Read More Largo Library Checks In a New Checkout System Read More Death of library greatly exaggerated Read More Lodi Library to offer […]
Library News: Digital Public Library, Library Adds Vending Machine to Dispense Laptops, Libraries offer income tax help
Drexel U. Library Adds Vending Machine to Dispense Laptops Read More A Digital Public Library Without Paper Books Read More Community benefits from library system Read More Anoka County piloting ‘Library on the Go’ program Read More CWU library houses 600,000 federal documents Read More The Ideal Library Read More Iowa City library considers ban […]
QR Code Poster – Library of E-Books [IMAGE]
We thought this was pretty creative and there are varying comment types on the page itself (click on the image to visit the site), but our favorite: “My phone can’t even scan those…I need real libraries.” WE COULDN’T AGREE MORE! Still, this is a great street marketing idea, so we wanted to share it. Maybe […]
TAL Customer News | Bring Home Gold…Visit the Library!
Bring Home Gold…Visit the Library! Sign up for the Text a Librarian Customer Newsletter here! (sent Friday, July 27) Hello! We realize the Olympic opening ceremonies are about to begin, so we’ll make it snappy.This is our first official edition of the Text a Librarian Customer Newsletter where we’ll announce new features, updates, news, etc. […]
A Librarian’s Worth Around the World [INFOGRAPHIC]
This infographic (not quite a year old) has some incredibly interesting statistics about librarians around the world. Some of the stats: 1.5 billion visits to the library per year. 78% are women, 22% are men. Reference librarians answer more than 7.2 million questions every week. 65% of people polled have visited the library within the […]
“Text a Librarian? I didn’t know you could do that.”
We always wear our Text a Librarian T-Shirts (especially because we just got them in new colors). To work, on the weekends, whenever. Other than my “You Don’t Like Clowns?” tee from Headline Shirts, my Text a Librarian shirt starts the most conversations of any I wear. People always smile, some understand it immediately, some […]
Want a Successful Text a Librarian Launch? Skip the Training, Go Straight to Marketing
We talk a lot about library marketing at Mosio. Being that marketing is one of the most important needs in the success and continuation of a business, we believe it’s the same for libraries. From what we’ve seen in the industry over the past few years, those libraries who are great at marketing are doing […]
Experiential Marketing Ideas for Libraries (Guest Post by Andrew Loos from Attack! Marketing)
We saw quite a bit of buzz (positive and negative) about Seth Godin’s blog post The Future of Libraries, some saying he gets it and others saying he misses the point, again (we’re big Bobbi Newman fans here). An interesting post about the post by PC Sweeney mentions library branding and marketing, so we quickly […]
More Information About QR Codes – Are You Getting the Message?
The hype surrounding QR codes is T–H–I–C–K! In libraries and even more so in marketing and advertising. It makes sense that everyone is excited about them. QR codes fairly easy to create, time making them is the only cost and even though one cannot track how many times they’ve been scanned (a big bummer in […]