Taking the Show on the Road – Marketing Outreach

by Amy Peterson Over the past four years my colleagues and I have taken what we affectionately call the Library Road Show to various locations within the Schaumburg Township District community. We’ve extolled the virtues of downloadable media to commuters at the Metra Train Station and to fitness enthusiasts at recreation centers, explained how to [...]

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Exhibits Work

Exhibits Work! Exhibits work to inform, promote and entertain.  It’s a unique way to tell a story – in a three-dimensional way, in descriptive panels, in tactile presentations and more.  All of our libraries need to engage our communities in multiple ways and creating an exhibit – telling that story and defining that space – [...]

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Collaboration is Key

We have been fortunate this semester to host Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, a traveling exhibition for libraries, organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office.  The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The success of [...]

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