[Libs-Or] Gale blog on our LSTA outreach project

[Kate Dwyer]

Gale Cengage Learning's Customer Care Rep Vanessa Craig
featured our LSTA project in her blog post. Here's the link: http://blog.gale.com/i-had-no-idea-changing-how-the-library-is-viewed-one-stakeholder-at-a-time/
Among other things, my project introduces library online databases to students, policy makers, in-library patrons and lots of others.
It's easy to get people excited about our databases when the content they are finding is relevant to their lives.
I walk them through live searches on topics they care about.
I do this not just at the library, but in offices, hospitals, schools, club meetings, etc.
Getting in the door is the hard part: people think they already know all about libraries.
But once I'm there, they are amazed.
Then I get them to give me short testimonials so that other groups will say yes, too.
Kate Dwyer
Outreach Education Librarian
Josephine Community Libraries
Grants Pass OR 97528






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