New Routes to Library Success: 100+ Ideas from Outside the Stacks--e-book

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9780838913192
Published
2015
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ALA Editions
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256
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eBook

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Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The Process

Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship

Josh Davis, Gelato Fiasco


Chapter 3: Creativity

 

Walter Briggs, Briggs Advertising


Chapter 4: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary

 

 

Fritz Grobe, EepyBird


Chapter 5: Advocates for the Creators

 

 

Margot Atwell, Kickstarter


Chapter 6: Customer Service

 

 

Chris Wilson, L.L.Bean


Chapter 7: Trend Tracking

 

 

Vicki Loomis, Trendwatching.com


Chapter 8: Learning Your Community

 

 

Brian Kevin and Ginny Wright, Down East Magazine


Chapter 9: Creating a Great Workplace

 

 

Meredith Jones, Maine Community Foundation


Chapter 10: Content Curation

 

 

Liz Doucett, Curtis Memorial Library


Chapter 11: Unconventional Thinking

 

 

Kate Cheney Chappell, Tom's of Maine


Index

 

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The Process

Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship

Josh Davis, Gelato Fiasco


Chapter 3: Creativity

 

Walter Briggs, Briggs Advertising


Chapter 4: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary

 

 

Fritz Grobe, EepyBird


Chapter 5: Advocates for the Creators

 

 

Margot Atwell, Kickstarter


Chapter 6: Customer Service

 

 

Chris Wilson, L.L.Bean


Chapter 7: Trend Tracking

 

 

Vicki Loomis, Trendwatching.com


Chapter 8: Learning Your Community

 

 

Brian Kevin and Ginny Wright, Down East Magazine


Chapter 9: Creating a Great Workplace

 

 

Meredith Jones, Maine Community Foundation


Chapter 10: Content Curation

 

 

Liz Doucett, Curtis Memorial Library


Chapter 11: Unconventional Thinking

 

 

Kate Cheney Chappell, Tom's of Maine


Index

 

Elisabeth Doucett

Elisabeth Doucett is director of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. She holds an MLS from Simmons College, where she was elected to the Beta Phi Mu Honor Society, and an MBA in marketing from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is the author of Creating Your Library Brand. Her strategy and marketing proficiencies were developed over more than a decade spent in the consumer packaged goods industry as a marketing director at Quaker Oats and Dunkin' Donuts and as a brand manager at Kraft Foods in the Maxwell House Coffee Division.

"A handy, largely intuitive reference that, in focusing in on patrons as consumers, serves as both a stimulus for new paths and a methodology for canvassing one's own local community and patrons."
— Booklist

"A great read to help spur discussion and bring excitement to developing a different mindset about libraries. There are some great ideas that can be replicated for those willing to take a new approach to library thinking."
— VOYA

"The eleven chapters do more than just interview the people involved with their companies; the chapter headings invite us to explore what it actually means to delve into organizational thinking … This book is so easy and so simple only because it takes a complicated topic—how do I make my library better—and breaks the topic into easy-to-follow directions. The best part of the book is that the reader can refer to any chapter at any time and get some time-tested solutions to put into practice immediately."
— Catholic Library World