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Advertising Library Services


Being a librarian, you need to wear a number of different hats. For the IM reference service we have now implemented I needed to do some promotion. I came up with a few advertising ideas including: flyers posted where the students are (i.e. dorms, commons), bookmarks with the URL on them, and screen [...]

We’re Getting Questions!!!


We have now gotten through the first few weeks of Instant Message Reference at Edgewood College.  We have not done any serious publicity for our site yet.  The only way people would know about it yet is if they went to the Ask a Librarian link on the libraries home page.  We are doing this [...]

Instant Messaging Up and Running


Today an instant messaging reference system was born at Edgewood College. What I had been planning and working on for about three months finally came to fruition and I am really eager to see how it turns out. We are not doing any advertising yet for the new service. That will come [...]