The archive of today’s WebJunction webinar with Jeff Dawson from the Lester Public Library in Two Rivers, Wisconsin and myself on Marketing Library Services with Images is live now. You can watch the archive here: http://www.webjunction.org/marketing/articles/content/94460985
Here is a shot of Jeff and I meeting for the first time at the PLA Conference in Portland, OR […]
Netflix ships 2.2 million DVDs a day. And circulates 95% of its inventory every three months. Netflix is the best DVD ILL system in the world. What do you think of THAT modern libraries?
*found on notes accompanying behind the scenes shipping room pictures that Netflix just posted to facebook today*
Comments from my […]
The Seattle Public Library system to close Aug. 31 through Sept. 7
The Seattle Public Library system will close Monday, Aug. 31 through Sunday, Sept. 6 due to citywide budget cuts. Please note Monday, Sept. 7 is the Labor Day holiday and all libraries will be closed. Regular Library operations will resume Tuesday, Sept. 8. press […]
In doing presentations of the years, I’ve been really lucky to make friends and stay in touch with a few folks out there doing the real work in the libraries I visit. We’ll occasionally exchange emails and ideas and just keep track of each other. Today I got a message on facebook from […]
Hooray! Libraries, library staff and most importantly, library patrons are accessing content with tools like youtube. And Joost. And others. This is important. And libraries are in that loop. Woo hoo!
But…what about the oceans of content that just isn’t “free” and/or centrally located and is distributed more and more […]
I’m very honored and happy to share with everyone news of…drum roll….. my new job! While still at WebJunction, I now have a spiffy new title and more focused duties. I’m not saying that as the new Community Product Manager I’ll be able to do ALL this stuff:
Specific Responsibilities
· Grow our Online Community for […]
User generated, customized content works for Flickr. User generated customized content is Flickr. User generated, customized content makes Flickr stronger, adds value and increases market share. It makes loyal Flickr users and nurtures community. What if we took ?Flickr? out of those first four sentences and switched it to ?Libraries?. […]
Netflix Lovefest Results From Datamining Interface
This post was intended to be purely about numbers, stats and ranking of DVDs in Netflix and in Libraries using WorldCat. But the interactive, social, instant, business encouraging model at Netflix was so amazingly effective that intent was nearly trumped. Here’s a number that explains it all: 2.0. […]
**Picture Removed at request of Niagra University**
Request stated “The screen capture is a violation of copyright law.”
http://www.niagara.edu/library/illdvds.html
Niagara University uses Netflix to expand circualtion and patron access. Nice work!
**Update - “Niagara University Library will no longer be offering the service”. Yipes! Wonder what gives? **
A message to Netflix: Would you be interested […]
Podcasting has officially become ubiquitous. It was a tad surprising to see this banner add on technorati.com but hey, if it works for marketing movies perhaps even more libraries should consider using the tool? Greg has some great librarycentric info on the subject at Open Stacks if you’re so inclined
The movie is predicted to […]