[Eril-l] E-Resource Marketing/Promotion

Phillip Hewitt pjh315 at lehigh.edu
Fri Aug 5 07:47:52 PDT 2022


We are experimenting with campus bus ads for broadly popular e-resources
(starting with direct-access newspaper subscriptions - *NYT*, *WSJ*, *WaPo*)
that were recommended as needing more marketing by our Student Library
Advisory Board.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:56 PM Graves, Tonia <tgraves at odu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Erika,
>
> Don’t overlook assistance from vendors.  They often have prepared content
> that is applicable to hitting the ground running with just a bit of
> tweaking on your part.
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> Best,
>
> *Tonia*
>
> Tonia Graves
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> Resource Discovery Librarian
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> Old Dominion University Libraries
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> tgraves at odu.edu
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> *On Behalf Of *Erika
> Boardman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 3, 2022 5:10 PM
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> *Subject:* [Eril-l] E-Resource Marketing/Promotion
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> Hi everyone,
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> I was wondering if anyone here has any tips, ideas, success stories,
> starting places, etc. for marketing and promoting electronic resources? I'm
> trying to find more ways to market and promote electronic resources at my
> library.
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> Currently, the main method is an "E-Resource Spotlight" that gets posted
> monthly and I created an Electronic Resources LibGuide that has information
> & a blog feed. Outside of that, I'm a little stuck on where to start and
> there isn't a lot of literature out there about marketing electronic
> resources. I want to do more than just a highlight on our website and find
> ways that could engage our users a bit more.
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> I'm hoping someone here has some feedback on how to "hit the ground
> running" with this - I don't have a marketing background and it definitely
> wasn't a huge conversation in my MLIS program. I'm open to any ideas and
> thoughts.
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> Thank you!
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> Erika Boardman
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Best,

Phil Hewitt
*Senior Engineering and Electronic Collections Librarian*
Pronouns: he/him
(610) 758-3068
Engineering LibraryGuides <https://goo.gl/XePVjn>
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