1. Promoting Academic Libraries and Reference Services Andrea MullenLIS 698, Seminar and Practicum, Spring 2011Dr. Tula Giannini

2. Project Identification Site: Brooklyn CollegeSupervisor: Professor Beth Evans Title: Reference Intern experienced the challenges of low reference desk numbers looks into how other colleges and universities promoted their library services and how Brooklyn College could implement changes into their marketing services.

3. -part of the CUNY consortium -Urban campus located in Southeast Brooklyn -18,000 (mostly commuter) students -has more than 70 undergraduate majors and 60 graduate majors

4. Brooklyn College Library Holdings in the library include: -1.5 million volumes -45,000 serials -43,000 electronic serials -40,000 electronic books -technologically advanced

5. Now, what did I do? Working on various projects Interlibrary loan Reference Desk

6. Core Book Collection http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/research/core_collections.html

7. Data: College Students Today(And how to reach them)

8. College Students and Social Media Formal studies show the obvious: Facebook is incredibly popular with Americans of all ages

9. Twitter is also gaining in popularity

10. What Does this Mean? Is it worth it to invest the effort and time into a Twitter feed when the teen usage statistics are so low? Should the Brooklyn College Library use its Facebook page as a marketing channel? What other marketing channels might BCL consider?

11. Proactive Marketing Could be used to promote Question Point services

12. The Malted Falcon To Grill a Mockingbird Edible Book ContestUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Frank in Stein Candied Voltaire

13. What the Brooklyn College Library may want to market

14. Use the two outlets to announce: -Changes in library hours, closures of certain areas at the library -Availability of chat reference services to BC students-Happenings at the library such as events and tutorials-Librarian recommendations on Web 2.0 tools such as CaptureFox-Publications from library staff-Answering questions through Facebook chat, Facebook message