Wednesday, January 21, 2015
WWWC15
How wonderful to see so many of you participating in this week's WWWC15 webinars! I think the quality of the programs is outstanding and I can't wait to hear the ideas you've collected already. If you were inspired by anything you heard from the presenters today, or if anything inspires you tomorrow, please add a comment to this post to share with all staff. Let's get the conversation started!
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I thought the marketing sessions from the librarian in Connecticut was full of good ideas- story times at the farmer's market, bookmobile at the Industrial Park, outreach to the senior center, block party at Uptown. How about hosting meetings for area organizations and providing a speaker?
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed that session. Hoping we can set up a table outside the Bookmobile at Harbor Market with cookbooks on display with other books about nutrition and healthy eating...or beach reads would be fun too.
DeleteMonica, I love this idea, also, KPL should make their own recipe book, we have staff that are very talented cooks. This could be a way of collecting funds or donations.
DeleteI agree that we can really make the BKM more visible at Harbor Market. Even if it's just strolling through the market with fliers or bookmarks, that raises awareness of our presence. It would be awesome to have a table, and then direct patrons to the actual bookmobile for more options.
DeleteI'm very excited to hear all the wonderful ideas sparked by these webinars!
ReplyDeleteI attended the session yesterday about love. The notion of the community loving their library was talked about and how we need to be thinking the opposite. The library needs to love their community. Many ideas were given as to what the library can do for the community.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the Stop Whining and Complain Effectively session by Pat Wagner, a Kenosha native. Her discussion of how to usefully describe a real problem, by avoiding exaggeration and embellishment and emphasizing concrete descriptions and numbers in context, is applicable to all kinds of situations.
ReplyDeleteI was challenged and excited by Daniel Rasmus’s presentation “Listening to the Future of Libraries.” He says that planning for only one view of the future is dangerous and advises “Scenario Planning,” or thinking about multiple possible scenarios of the future. He quotes Schopenhauer, “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everyone sees.” I had to mull that one over for a while! Rasmus suggests that we plan “not only for the future we want, but for the future we are given.” He also mentions that 90% of the jobs people will hold 10 years from now don’t exist today! How are we preparing our patrons (and ourselves!) for 2025?
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