Adding Mosio’s Text a Librarian Reference Widget/Tab to your LibGuides | Library Chat Widget

Adding Mosio’s Text a Librarian Reference Widget/Tab to your LibGuides Special thanks to Kristen B. for the helpful info! In her own words… “As our resident LibGuides nerd, I played with a couple of ways of putting the code in. To put it in the footer [which places the tab on all pages], the process […]

The Best Meebo Alternative for Libraries: Mosio’s Text a Librarian

Mosio’s Text a Librarian now includes Chat + Text Messaging + Email + Website Support Tab Widgets The Best Meebo Alternative for Libraries: Mosio’s Text a Librarian We’d like to start by congratulating the Meebo team on being acquired by Google. We had the chance to meet with a few of them back when we […]

How to Text a Librarian [VIDEO COMPILATION]

Hello! We found a batch of “how to” videos about Text a Librarian and wanted to share them in a single place where you can watch them. As we’ve recently mentioned, getting patrons to register their phones is the best way we’re seeing a serious increase in usage from libraries. If you’re looking for some […]

Getting More Patron Usage from your Text a Librarian Service | Best Practices from Mosio’s Text a Librarian

The video below is a recorded session discussing how we’re seeing libraries increase patron usage. Below is a transcript of the notes taken during the recording.   Increasing Patron Usage of your Text a Librarian Service:   Get patrons to register their phones.   The following conversation took place late in the evening as part […]

Text Messaging for Libraries – Mosio’s Alerts and Announcements Feature Guide

Text Messaging Alerts and Announcements – Stay in touch with more patrons on their mobile phones! Mosio’s Text a Librarian is the only mobile carrier certified text messaging solution built specifically for libraries, giving libraries the reliability and flexibility they need to stay top of mind for more patrons on the go. This quick instructional […]

Library Thought Leaders Q&A: Buffy Hamilton (The Unquiet Librarian)

Today’s library thought leader is Buffy Hamilton (aka The Unquiet Librarian), high school librarian and teacher at The Unquiet Library in Canton, Georgia. For this series we are gathering thoughts and opinions about Patron Relationship Management (aka PRM) in libraries. What does PRM mean to you? Is it different in a high school library setting? If so, how? […]

Integrated Library Systems – All library software providers using text messaging need to do it the right way

Everyone is texting and it is not likely to be going away any time soon. That means libraries looking to communicate with patrons on their mobile phones need to rely on the best and most reliable ways for deploying mobile technologies. There is a lot of hype around mobile apps and we love them too, […]

Text a Librarian Marketing – New Business Card Template

Hello! We just had a customer ask for an updated business card template to market their Text a Librarian service, so we wanted to share it here. As always, there are a handful of digital assets and templates in the patron marketing materials section of your account, but here’s a business card template. It uses […]

Library Thought Leaders Q&A: Aaron Tay

Today’s Library Thought Leader is Aaron Tay, Reference Librarian with the National University of Singapore. As you know, the theme of this Q&A series is “Patron Relationship Management” or PRM. What areas of PRM are you seeing where libraries can benefit the most? To me Patron Relationship Management refers to tracking, managing of customer/patron needs […]

Library Thought Leaders Q&A: Alison Miller

Today’s Library Thought Leader is Alison Miller, Manager of the ipl2 Reference Services at Drexel University and the WISE Coordinator for Syracuse University. As you know, the theme of this Q&A series is “Patron Relationship Management” or PRM. What areas of PRM are you seeing where libraries can benefit the most? There is no one […]