{"id":34754,"date":"2013-08-12T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=34754"},"modified":"2013-08-29T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:08:51","slug":"founders-day-what-library-outreach-can-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=34754","title":{"rendered":"Founders\u2019 Day: what library outreach can look like"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Amanda Viana , Head Editor , INALJ Massachusetts . . .<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Founders\u2019 Day : what library outreach can look like<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"AVianaphoto\"<\/a>Every community has its own unique events that bring people together. In the town where I work, the Founders\u2019 Day Picnic is one of those events. Organized by the town\u2019s Recreation Department (all volunteers), Founders\u2019 Day is held on a Saturday in June at one of the town\u2019s schools. Food vendors, live music, a bouncy castle, balloons, face painting, a petting zoo, fireworks\u2026and the library.<\/p>\n

Last year was the first year that the library participated in Founder\u2019s Day, but this year we really hit our stride.\u00a0<\/strong> We set up shop right at the beginning, near the classic cars, and spent the afternoon setting up. We brought a fundraising raffle of Boston Bruins collectables, a free raffle for a bag of books, posters, bookmarks, stickers, and brochures for the Summer Reading Program, and plenty of handouts about our online services. Armed with an iPad mini, Virgin Mobile mifi, and wireless scanner, I spent the evening registering new patrons for library cards<\/strong>, happily informing them that they could begin to use the library\u2019s services as soon as they got home\u2014even though the library wouldn\u2019t open again until Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Some of us roamed the Picnic giving out information about teen volunteering opportunities while the rest of us manned the booth. We talked with lots of regular patrons and even more potential new ones. We drew people in with our raffles and handouts and started a conversation about how the library could serve them. Best of all, we firmly established ourselves as part of the community; we broke down the silo and got out into town. We marketed, we laughed, we connected, and we bonded with each other.<\/strong> We did library outreach, and it felt really, really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Amanda Viana , Head Editor , INALJ Massachusetts . . . Founders\u2019 Day : what library outreach can look like Every community has its own unique events that bring people together. In the town where I work, the Founders\u2019 Day Picnic is one of those events. Organized by the town\u2019s Recreation Department (all volunteers), Founders\u2019…<\/p>\n

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