Keep Those Ideas Coming!

Our brains were really storming during Friday's session! I was so energized by the quality of ideas and enthusiasm you all contributed - thanks for attending!

The following is a summary of the scenarios each group considered and the ideas you generated (Click here to see supplemental resources I mentioned during the talk):

Group 1: Get to Know Your Target Market

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• Ask students to design library resource guides
• Web question of the week
• Paper survey
• Individual meetings and phone calls
• Admissions office contact
• Registrar's office to see what courses they're taking
• Dean of Students' office re: student interests and special needs
• Club meetings
• Library tours
• Assessments
• ETS test
• RA's input
• Going to classrooms/Bringing classes to library
• "The Throne" (bathroom stall newsletter?)
• Open house
• Technology lit - find out/assess
• Yahoo answers - type contest
• Student e-mail
• Student advisory board
• Form on Web site - survey
• Informal settings - dorm, student union
• Talk to student workers
• Social networking (Facebook/MySpace)
• Wiki
• LibQual
• Have anthropology professor do an ethnography
• NSSE survey results
• LibStats
• At Orientation
• Talk to high school librarians
• Talk to technology help desk
• Blog
• Focus groups
• Talk to faculty
• Suggestion box
• My librarian

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Group 2: Let's Give 'Em Something to Talk About

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• Coffee coupons
• Adv. advocates
• Take-aways for others to see
• E-mail faculty
• Flyers in boxes
• Library ambassadors
• Peer tutor
• Telephone tree
• Text tree
• E-mail tree
• Encourage WOM
• Big changes
• Recycling center
• Do cool new things
• Check out/prize reel
• Bribe
• Bookmarks
• Food drive
• Fine forgiveness
• Amnesty day
• Whisper/rumors
• Balloon rides
• Fairs
• Librarian dunk
• Pin the bun
• Challenge the librarian
• Guest librarians
• Dye hair
• Family

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Group 3: Meeting Them Halfway...Or More

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• Reward incentive
• Meeting with student service groups
• "How to" sessions
• Vendor training for faculty
• Website
• Audio cast
• RSSV
• Campus radio
• Advertising around campus
• Consultation
• IM
• Blogging (your librarian)
• Add librarians to syllabi
• Sponsor puzzles in student newspaper
• Advertise with snack wrappers
• Flyers on cars in parking lots
• Promotional materials - coffee
• Cup holder with logo
• Create collaborative spaces patrons want to come to
• Wiki of most-asked questions
• Consultation (going to patron)
• Radio
• Podcasting
• Librarian presentation-connect with classroom
• Roving librarian
• Kiosk in student center

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Group 4: The More, The Merrier

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• Commuters
• Distance ed
• Disabled
• Gamers
• We are all "library" read day - staff
• Slogans for different patrons
• Color days incentives
• Church groups
• Retirement people
• Family members (parents)
• Yearly library slogans
• Food for thought @ your library
• Incorporate @ your slogan
• Guest authors
• Posters
• TV
• Newspapers
• Internet
• Brochures
• Flyers
• Beach room sandbox with wicker furniture
• Adopt a highway (librarians and students pick up trash 4 times a year)
• This is your day - we send birthday cards to faculty and staff
• Highlight and recognize faculty publications
• Give students randomly a Valentine for a free gift
• Candy/lollipops
• Find your tune @ your library
• Fortune cookies
• Humor @ your library smiley faces
• Wear a teaser on your nametag (ex: "What's eBook?")

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