Also, top tech trends report from the ALA Conference, survey templates to measure volunteer and board satisfaction, the LITA Blog, and library tech newsbytes.
We're summing summer this month with a full report from the LITA Top Tech Trends Committee from the ALA Conference, a probing investigation on what the heck a digital pop-up library is, five really useful survey templates to measure your volunteer and board satisfaction with your programs, all about the LITA Blog, and of course our decidedly weird collection of library tech news items for August. TechSoup for Libraries celebrates the last gasp of summer.
In Evanston, Illinois, four new libraries have appeared. Except that they look nothing like libraries and everything like, well, posters with instructions to access a Wi-Fi hotspot. Because that's exactly what they are. Welcome to the brave new world of Baker and Taylor digital pop-up libraries and whether or not your library should try one out.
The LITA Top Technology Trends Committee chair, Tammy Allgood Wolf, compiled a great report for TechSoup for Libraries on the latest from the LITA Top Tech Trends Committee. Find out what this diverse panel of library technology experts had to say at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., this summer. They discussed artificial intelligence, network security, online news literacy, data mining and curation, cloud computing, coding for the very young, girls in STEM, cutting-edge humanities scholarship, and data literacy education — among many other things.
Sitting down and interviewing each one of your volunteers or board members is not always feasible. Additionally, one-on-one meetings can be intimidating and may not produce the most honest responses. You might like to try conducting some quick and easy surveys among volunteers at your libraries. Get some free templates for volunteer enrollment, volunteer satisfaction, and volunteer interests and skills.
See our monthly collection of fun library tech news items from our great Twitter feed and wherever else we find them. This month we humbly offer a nice recap of the entire ALA 2019 Conference, news on some new ALA intellectual freedom resources, hitting the alarm about how big publishers are choking off access to digital content for libraries, the top 10 books written by librarians, social services case management Oklahoma style, and the quest by two enterprising fellows to visit and rank every public library In Massachusetts and beyond! Get your newsbytes here.
The LITA Blog is hosted by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. The blog features original content by LITA members on technologies and trends relevant to librarians. Their writers represent a variety of perspectives, from library students to public, academic, and special librarians. The blog also delivers announcements about LITA programming, conferences, and other events, and serves as a place for LITA committees to share information back with the community. They also post a weekly Jobs in Information Technology column on new openings around the country in the library tech field. LITA invites any librarian to submit a guest post on library tech to them. You don't even have to be a LITA member to do so!
QuestionPro offers public libraries first-class online software for creating surveys, collecting responses, and analyzing results. This donation provides a one-year subscription to QuestionPro Corporate for one user for a $97 admin fee. It allows you to create unlimited surveys with unlimited questions and to collect unlimited responses. It gives you multiple question types, including multiple-choice, drop-down menu, comment box, matrix table, and star rating. It also features excellent reports. You can view your results online in real-time and create infographics, response maps, and word clouds. You can share the results online or export them to Excel, Word, Google Docs, or Dropbox. Join TechSoup's Boost Program and get QuestionPro for $54 for one year.
Supporter actions and other data can tell you the best time to ask a donor to upgrade to become a monthly giver, join a mid-level program, or just make the next gift. When this is combined with automation, you can raise more money with less effort.
This TechSoup webinar will use case studies to show how data, careful segmentation, and automation combine to deliver the right message, to the right supporter, at the right time. We'll see how this results in greater revenue for your library.
We'll specifically discuss
How to create email automation workflows to manage messaging
When to choose between blast, drip, and nurture campaigns
How to set up automation for welcome series, donor re-engagement, sustainer recruitment, and renewal campaigns
Missed any of our most popular webinars? No problem. They're all recorded and available to watch for free on demand. Check out all our archived webinars at http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/events/archive.
