If you listen to the buzz, there's a hum of excitement in the library. Library usage is up. Users need the library more than ever in a tough economic climate.
How do we identify, market, and promote the needs of the library so that we may best serve our users?
Learn how major associations and organizations are tackling the problem. Exchange ideas with experts who have demonstrated success in branding services. Join hands with others in a common effort to better serve all in our communities.
Friday March 6, 2009
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
National Institutes of Health
Masur Auditorium
(Building 10, near the South Entrance)
Forum speakers:
- Suzanne Grefsheim (NIH Library)
- Patricia Glass Schuman (Neal-Schuman Publishers)
- Roberta Stevens (Library of Congress)
- Greta Southard (Executive Director, Public Library Association)
- Ellen Herbst (Director, National Technical Information Service)
Would you like to take a tour of the NIH Library at 12:00 p.m., before the event? Reserve a space with Dera Tompkins (tompkins@mail.nih.gov).
If you have questions about the forum, please contact March6thEvent@yahoo.com.
Directions to NIH Clinical Center: Enter the NIH campus through the public entrance at Route 355 (Rockville Pike) and South Drive. Show your identification at security before proceeding on South Drive to Center Drive. Turn right on Center Drive following signs to "Patient Parking" and "Clinical Center." The main entrance to the hospital will be on your left on Center Drive.
"Libraries in Tough Economic Times" is sponsored by ALA-FAFLRT, ALA-GODORT, NIH Library, DC/SLA, and DCLA.
Sponsoring websites:
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library
ALA Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Round Table (FAFLRT)
ALA Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
District of Columbia Library Association (DCLA)
Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (DC/SLA)