At 04:54 PM 8/20/2007, you wrote: > <snip> >Perhaps we as an organization need to redirect our focus >at conventions from cultural pursuits to addressing these problems >that threaten our profession and our ability to teach people about >their religion and heritage. A good first step would be to make a >public statement published in major Jewish media outlets to express >our concern and offer to educate. Let's use this opportunity to >promote, educate, and preserve our profession and the collections >that we handle.
Some of the activities that I have staged in the past have consisted of two agendas. One in my mind and one that I tell everyone. Events are attempts to keep the library in the mind of the public. I want to show the public that the library is more than a place for books and magazines. In my idea of Library 2.0 libraries cease being static. Librarians and libraries go to their public. Librarians visit classrooms and libraries reach out with web sites, electronic resources, lectures, concerts, and displays. One time I even staged an event just to get press coverage. Last semester in the college library we had "Coffee on Thursdays." We had lectures and displays connected to a place and tied it to the globalization push of the college. Once time we had more people attend than the room could hold. Think about reaching out. Think about messages that can hit home 24/7. One motto for this year is: Assume nothing! ================================ BTW I am working on the newsletter for our Chicago chapter. I would appreciate any articles or ideas for articles about Jewish libraries, books or Jewish learning that you think are useful to our members and librarians in general. We do not publish book or media reviews since the AJL Newsletter does such a good job of that. I will be writing an article on marketing ideas for libraries. I consider this a peer reviewed journal since at least two librarians read every article before publication. DS Daniel Stuhlman Chicago, IL 60645 DDstuhlman at earthlink.net <http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/liblob.htm>http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/liblob.htm Librarian's Lobby <http://stuhlman.biz>http://stuhlman.biz Home page Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
