Here are resources from the Graphic Design & Marketing Your Library Effectively workshop, which was held March 15, 2016 at the Ripon Public Library.
Marketing Your Library: How to do it Right!, presented by Tina Babler
- Sources / businesses / libraries / books that Tina follows to keep up on marketing trends:
- Red Shoes PR blog (Local PR firm): If you visit their social media, they are constantly updating their audience with great marketing information.
- Anythink Libraries: They are doing wonderful things with merchandising and marketing. They have a merchandising guideline handout
available on their website that we have looked at and are starting to adapt our materials to match. - Topeka & Shawnee County Library: They are really great at keeping their message simple and interesting. I would suggest signing up for their email updates.
- I look at places like forbes.com to see trends and find information too.
- Start a Revolution, Stop Acting Like a Library by Ben Bizzle is a great book. It’s a quick read, it took me about an hour last summer sitting on my deck soaking in the sun. (Find the book in the WALS catalog, InfoSoup, and WorldCat.)
Graphic Design Principles, presented by Rebecca Hall
Hands-on Training: Using Paint.net to Create and Edit Images, presented by Heather Fischer
- Paint.net 4.0.9 Shortcuts
- Project 1: Edit / Recolor CSLP Art
- Project 2: Easter Eggs
- download Paint.net version 4.0.9 free image-editing software
Hands-on Training: Using Excel to Create Data Visualizations, presented by Stef Morrill
Here's how you can contact the presenters:
- Tina Babler, Marketing Coordinator at Appleton Public Library
phone: 920-832-1695
email: tbabler@apl.org - Rebecca Hall, Web Development & Marketing Director at UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
phone: 414-229-2855
email: rjhall@uwm.edu - Heather Fischer, Public Information Designer for Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System
phone: 920-485-0833
email: hfischer@mwfls.org - Stef Morrill, Director, WiLS
phone: 608-216-8319
email: smorrill@wils.org
Continuing Education Activity Report Form 
Continuing education contact hours for the full day: 5.75 (3.75 technology-related)