The digest has been providing a wealth of news and resources from in and around the web since 1998. Tara Calishain’s ResearchBuzz is available as a newsletter. His motivation is a belief in ‘free access to information, facts and the views of all sides’. Ian manages to keep us up to date with what’s happening, not just in public libraries in the UK, but internationally as well. PLN is award-winning Librarian Ian Anstice’s indefatigable digest of public libraries. Public Library News (PLN) is an excellent example of expert aggregation. Expert Aggregatorīe a subject expert! There are some awesome library newsletters out there that curate content in various specialisms. There are updates about different residency programmes that they run, and insights from the Innovators in Residence. Their newsletter is great for finding out what goes on behind the scenes, and for keeping up with cool things built at the LC Labs. These projects and ‘experiments’ combine datasets with emerging technologies, and are designed to open up the collections to a wider audience. LC LABS is the Library of Congress’ initiative to encourage innovative engagement with digital collections, and they commission some really inventive projects and collaborations. A great example of this is LC LABS LETTER – A Monthly Roundup from the Library of Congress Labs Team. Newsletters can also be used to showcase different initiatives and the people behind them. New York Public Library also has an impressive collection of email publications to help you keep up-to-date. Suffolk Libraries keep readers up to date with events, news and staff picks which they combine with a clear call-to-action – asking their subscribers to support the library. There are many quality library newsletters around, providing good solid information to their patrons, but the offering from Suffolk Libraries has caught our eye. You can upcycle existing content from your blog and events calendar and push this to a different audience. These are an effective way to keep the community up to date with all the impressive things happening at the library and how they can get involved. The most common type of library newsletter is the monthly recap – a regular summary of events, programming information, new titles and other news. They tend to have a particular focus or theme… 1. Our inboxes are busy.Ĭreating engaging content, from the subject onwards, makes a big difference in establishing a connection with your audience, and that’s what all of our examples have in common. But it also means competing with a lot of other email noise to get people’s attention. Newsletters are a fantastic option for marketing and communicating directly with your users.
#LIBRARY NEWSLETTERS SERIES#
In this second post in our series to mark 200 issues of Newslet, our own library newsletter, we wanted to recognise some of our favourite examples and explore how they produce content that keeps their audiences engaged. It’s no secret that we ❤️ newsletters and library newsletters can come in quite a few different flavours.
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