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Using Branding to Advocate for the Academic Library. Dr. Camila A. Alire Immediate ALA Past President Dean Emerita University of New Mexico & Colorado State University ALA Midwinter 2011 – San Diego. Branding Concepts. Your promise to your customers.
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Using Branding to Advocate for the Academic Library Dr. Camila A. Alire Immediate ALA Past President DeanEmerita University of New Mexico & Colorado State University ALA Midwinter 2011 – San Diego
Branding Concepts • Your promise to your customers. • Expectations of the academic library (Resources and services)
Branding Concepts (cont.) • Need to know. • Do it! • Apply results. • Deliver through effective branding & marketing.
Link to Advocacy UNM Libraries’experience…
Steps • STP process • Tell the library’s story. • Find out what your users want
Steps (cont.) • Outreach & Data-collecting • Surveys • Focus groups • Users • Non-users • Frontline librarians/staff • LIBQUAL
Steps (Data collecting cont.) One reason foroutreach and data collection: • Provided validation
Steps (cont.) • Brand strategy – Communication • TO WHOM? • WHAT? • WHERE?
Steps (cont.) • No logo • Tagline - “Connecting you to worlds of knowledge”
The “Connection” • Branding > FrontlineLibrary Staff >Advocacy
The Connection • Getting to Our Grassroots/Users • Frontline librarians & library support staff
Frontline Advocacy (cont.) Library Staff Serve as Connectors…
In Branding & Advocacy….. Every Voice Makes a Difference.