When used effectively, a website can be a great tool for engaging your local community. Be it blogging, online forms, or user-generated content like comments and reading lists, you have many powerful tools at your disposal. Every single day, our partner libraries are creating new and innovative ways of using these.

One of the challenges of maintaining a public library website is ensuring that it continuously appeals to the needs and preferences of your online patrons. You might align with user expectations at the start of your website’s lifecycle, but people change, and so do the technologies and standards underpinning the web..

When it comes to generating online visibility and driving patron engagement, blogging is one of the best tools available to public libraries. Libraries that lean on staff and patron voices to create content show the tangible value of their services and lead conversations amid key public issues thrive. They capture the.

Blogging is a powerful way of both telling your library’s story and, as importantly, getting that story in front of as many people as possible. This is especially true when your library blog articles deliver real tangible value by positively impacting the personal and professional lives of your patrons. Your blog can.

So, what makes a great library blog? Well, let’s walk through a real story to find out… Sneha Bhavsar is a mixed media artist who was commissioned to create a very intricate and delicate piece with paper she brought from India. This piece required Sneha to make many cuts to the paper using an X-Acto knife; however,.

Last week, library staff and industry experts from across North America joined the BiblioCommons team to kick off BiblioCon ’23. As with every BiblioCon, the event was a fantastic gathering, one that generated many great real-world insights on how to build thriving and inclusive public libraries. Conference attendees.

A well-designed and accessible website experience is critical to attracting and retaining users online. People have an abundance of options online, yet limited time — so, they expect the websites, platforms, and apps they visit to respect their time. How? By respecting their accessibility needs and security concerns,.

As people lean on the web for more of their daily lives, it has become critical for libraries to extend their strong in-person experiences to digital spaces. From the ability to browse a collection and borrow an item to connecting with the library and more, every part of the experience needs to carry over online..

Marketers are in the driving seat of bringing their library’s vision to life by steering the messaging, reaching out to the community, creating pathways for the library’s voice and personality to rise to the top, and, not least, cementing the library as an important part of people’s lives.

How do you get people excited about digital books, audio books, and magazines, along with all the other resources available at your library?