Sara A. Fiore

Crowdsource Your Library, Engage Your Community (eBook, ePUB)

The What, When, Why, and How

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates crowdsourcing techniques that will help you to raise money and collect community knowledge so your library can be its most impactful. This informative guide teaches you how to strengthen your library's collections and services and develop your relationships with patrons by crowdsourcing ideas, support, and skills from your community. Citing success stories from libraries across the country, it also specifies tactics that will help you to serve specific demographic groups, including children, teens, and adults. You'll learn how to more exactly meet your patrons' needs by welcoming suggestions for improvements to your library. To raise money for special projects, you'll learn how to garner the necessary support; the author explains what types of funding campaigns are particularly suited to crowdsourcing and offers concrete steps for executing crowdfunding library initiatives. Moreover, you'll learn how to act as your community's documentarian by using crowdsourcing to gather and preserve community knowledge such as local history, providing your community with a reservoir of information from which it can draw for years to come.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216068747
• Artikelnr.: 68164833

Autorenporträt

Sara A. Fiore is reference librarian at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton, New York. Her work has appeared in Library Journal, Public Libraries Magazine, and PLA Online.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Why You Need This Book and How to Use It Part
One-Money, Money, Money ONE An Introduction to Crowdfunding TWO
Crowdfunding with Kickstarter About Kickstarter End Result THREE
Crowdfunding with Indiegogo About Indiegogo End Result FOUR Crowdfunding
with GoFundMe About GoFundMe End Result FIVE Additional Crowdfunding
Platforms Fundly Bonfire Chuffed Facebook YouCaring Causes SIX Forming Your
Crowdfunding Team and Formulating Your Plan Pre-Campaign Kickstarter
Indiegogo GoFundMe Campaign Post-Campaign Web Sites and Resources Part
Two-Using the Wisdom of the Crowd SEVEN An Introduction to Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing Is a Community Outreach Tool Crowdsourcing Is a Staff
Development Tool Crowdsourcing Is a Time-Saving Tool Crowdsourcing Is a
Library Marketing Tool What It Takes Get Creative EIGHT Crowdsourcing Your
Collection A Word about E-books Making It Better NINE Digital Crowdsourcing
OCR and the Need for People Library of Congress and Flickr Commons Building
Enthusiasm Practical Considerations Extending Your Reach-The Labs Project
NYPL-What's on the Menu? TEN Starting a Crowdsourced Transcription Project
Paid Hosting Sites Open-Source Options ELEVEN Crowdsourcing Adult Services
Living History and the StoryCorps Initiative It's Still Crowdsourcing, Even
If It's Not Your Project TWELVE Crowdsourcing with Teens Teen Advisory
Boards Building and Promoting Your Teen Collection with Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing and Community Service The Importance of Identifying a Need
Connect with and Learn from Others Start Small Transcription Projects with
Teen Appeal THIRTEEN Crowdsourcing with Kids and Families LEGO Sketchbook
Project A Library by Design Programs and Collections FOURTEEN Forming Your
Crowdsourcing Plan Transcription Pre-Campaign Transcription Campaign
Transcription Post-Campaign Program Pre-Campaign Program Campaign Program
Post-Campaign Web Sites and Resources Final Thoughts Works Cited Index