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Sherry Altman writes "See:

http://www.oclc.org/advocacy/default.htm

Community Advocacy and Awareness

Part of OCLC’s responsibility as a cooperative is to give back to the library community. Our advocacy efforts are meant to raise the visibility and highlight the viability of libraries to their funding bodies. The current campaign appears outside the traditional library industry, on behalf of all libraries everywhere. See the ads in print, customize one of the posters and use the sample copy for your own e-newsletter.

Making the case for libraries

OCLC has developed an advertising campaign on behalf of libraries, aimed at library budget decision-makers.

The 12 to 18 month campaign consists of a series of national print ads and similar posters that can be downloaded and customized by libraries. Click the image below to see a full-size PDF of each ad.

NOTE:

There’s a link at the bottom for “Community Feedback� community_feedback@oclc.org

Discussion on NYLINE’s listserv reports that OCLC was very responsive to an inquiry about advocacy for school libraries and community colleges, and they’re planning to expand into those areas. Seems like they’re WANTING community input on this, so…librarians should go to it!"

http://search-engines-web.com/ writes "from the "blockbuster-Libraries" Depthttp://news.tbo.com/news/MGB21I8NU4E.html

More and more people are treating public libraries as their own Blockbuster stores, the latest Hillsborough County data shows.Library spending on DVDs of Hollywood hits such as ``The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy and ``Terminator'' is up.The budget for serious books such as Bill Clinton's autobiography ``My Life'' or the novels of John Steinbeck is down.from the "Blockbuster Libraries" DeptBorrowers are still flipping pages, but watching and listening are rapidly gaining ground.``Well, they're free,'' said Tina Ellis, as she browsed for movies at the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Carrollwood. She finally chose ``Big Night,'' a 1996 film about a 1950s Italian restaurant in New Jersey

David H. Rothman writes "When the Greensboro News & Record ran a popular bus driver's obit on the front page of the final edition, it accidentally omitted the continuation on an inside page. In the past there would have been just a rerun of the story and a formulaic explanation. You'd never have seen a personal note from Editor John Robinson appearing the same day in a blog.

OK, now here's the library angle. Does anyone know of top librarians of big-city libraries doing their own blogs? Perhaps explaining new services or problems with the old? Or sharing enthusiasm for certain authors? Must everything be library-impersonal? More at TeleRead."

You can get a hint of the nature of their operation from the name of their business -- "The Friendly Bookstore." The bookstore operated by the FOL in Rogers Arkansas cares about the library and the community: Northwest Arkansas News.