Using QR Codes to Market Ask a Librarian

QR codes are an excellent way to promote Ask a Librarian to your users.   A QR code is a 2-D barcode that can connect the physical and online world! Sounds complicated but its not. A QR code is placed on a book, a poster, a bib record, a shelf, a name tag – you...

Texting Logos Available

Ask a Librarian now has customizable logos available for participating libraries to promote our new texting service. Please contact to have your library’s phone number and keyword added to the image!

Text Messaging Update

Text Messaging was introduced by Ask a Librarian on October 25th with little fanfare for the users. While all of us, were training, creating scripts and otherwise preparing – we expected initial growth to be slow and did little promotion for this new service...

Steal this Blog post!

Hi blogmasters: If you have a blog for your library, copy the below user-oriented text and paste it as an entry into your own library’s blog.  Go ahead – steal it.  We want you to.  You may wish to edit the text or add specific resources to spotlight or customize your...

Steal this Blog Post!

Hi blogmasters: If you have a blog for your library, copy the below user-oriented text and paste it as an entry into your own library’s blog.  Go ahead – steal it.  We want you to.  You may wish to edit the text or add specific resources to spotlight or customize your...