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SUBJECT INDEX to Past Issues http://marylaine.com/ exlibris/archive.html * * * * * * My resume http://marylaine.com/ resume.html Or why you might want to hire me for speaking engagements or workshops. To see outlines for previous presentations I've done, click on Handouts * * * My Writings http://marylaine.com/ resume2.html A bibliography of my published articles and columns, with links to those available online. * * * Order My Books Net Effects: How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet, and The Quintessential Searcher: the Wit and Wisdom of Barbara Quint. * * * What IS Ex Libris? http://marylaine.com/ exlibris/purpose.html The purpose and intended scope of this e-zine * * * E-Mail Subscription? For a combined subscription to Neat New Stuff and ExLibris, please click HERE, complete the form, and click on "subscribe." To unsubscribe, use the same form but click on "unsubscribe." To change addresses for an existing subscription, unsubscribe from that form and return to the page to enter the new address. * * * Highlights from Previous Issues: My Rules of Information Go where it is Corollary: Who Cares? The answer depends on the question Research is a multi-stage process Ask a Librarian Information is meaningless until queried by human intelligence Information can be true and still wrong Pay attention to the jokes * * * Guru Interviews Tara Calishain Jenny Levine, part I Jenny Levine, Part II Reva Basch Sue Feldman Jessamyn West Debbie Abilock Kathy Schrock Greg Notess William Hann Chris Sherman Gary Price Barbara Quint Rory Litwin John Guscott Brian Smith Darlene Fichter Brenda Bailey-Hainer Walt Crawford Molly Williams Genie Tyburski Patrice McDermott Carrie Bickner Karen G. Schneider Roddy MacLeod, Part I Roddy MacLeod, Part II John Hubbard Micki McIntyre * * * Cool Quotes The collected quotes from all previous issues are at http://marylaine.com/ exlibris/cool.html * * * When and How To Search the Net * * * Wanna See Your Name in Lights? Or at least on this page, anyway? I'd like to print here your contributions as well as mine. As you've noticed, articles are brief, somewhere between 200 and 500 words -- something to jog people's minds and get their own good ideas flowing. I'd also be happy to run other people's contributions to the regular features like Favorite Sites on _____. I'll pay you the same rate I pay me: nothing. * * * Drop me a Line Want to comment, ask questions, submit articles, or invite me to speak or do some training? Write me at: marylaine at netexpress.net Visit My Other Sites BookBytes http://marylaine.com/ bookbyte/index.html My page on all things book-related. * * * How To Find Out of Print Books http://marylaine.com/ bookbyte/getbooks.html Suggested strategies, resources, and finding tools. * * * Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/ bestinfo/default.htmThe directory I built for O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University, still my favorite pit stop on the information highway. * * * My Word's Worth http://marylaine.com/ myword/index.html an occasional column on books, words, libraries, American culture, and whatever happens to interest me. * * * Book Proposal Land of Why Not: an Appreciation of America. Proposal for an anthology of some of my best writing. An outline and sample columns are available here. * * * My personal page http://marylaine.com/ personal.html

OVER TO YOU by Marylaine Block Your turn again. I have two issues I need your input on. Tia Dobi, a professional advertising copywriter and lifelong fan of libraries, has offered to write a series of ExLibris pieces about how to do effective promotion. She suggested that I ask you to send me stories about your most successful library promotions. I'll pass them on to her to give her a sense of what the current state of the art is among librarians. She'd also like to know what things you most want to learn about promotion, advertising, and marketing. We'd both like to know whether, when budgets are tight, marketing and outreach efforts are among the first budgetary sacrifices. The second thing I want you to tell me about is this: how does your library indicate to users what behavior is expected in the building? Many people have complained about the noise and disorderly conduct they notice in libraries these days. Given that most of us really don't much like shushing people, or posting offputting signs with lots of NOs on them, how do you strike a balance between a lively, welcoming environment and an orderly one that doesn't intrude on people? What kinds of environmental cues do your buildings offer? What kinds of sound control techniques do you use? If you have to intervene, how do you tell people they're violating the rules without alienating them? I look forward to your answers. Thanks for contributing. * * * * * COOL QUOTE: And when the day is over I go home at 5:03 and I give thanks to God and then to Andrew Carnegie and the US Constitution and Orwell, Poe and Twain and I'll return at 8 AM to open up again I'm a librarian, I'm a librarian and I like it quiet so the pages can be heard I'm a librarian, I'm a librarian and I do it for the love of the word Jonathan Rundman. "Librarian." from his wonderful album, Public Library * * * You are welcome to copy and forward any of my own articles for noncommercial purposes (but not those by my guest writers) as long as you retain this copyright statement: Ex Libris: an E-Zine for Librarians and Other Information Junkies. http://marylaine.com/exlibris/ Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2004. [Publishers may license the content for a reasonable fee.] Please do NOT copy and post my articles to your own web sites, however. Instead, please copy a brief excerpt and link to my site for the remainder of the article.