It’s #MiLibSnap all week! Take time to use social media to share your library’s impact on your community. Feel free to participate often. Response so far has been great and you can view it here:

Quick links to follow the activity are below.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%23milibsnap

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/milibsnap/

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23milibsnap&src=typd

Some ideas for demonstrating your impact include: Use photos of the staff and facilities to personalize and put a face on your library; promote programming activities, outreach events, author tours, genealogy, and local history resources; and use stats such as circulation numbers to make your point. Get creative. You already know what you do best.  

Check out the tools below for creating great visuals.

Word cloud tools:

• Wordle
• Tagul
• Word It Out
• PowerPoint add-in

Infographic tools:

• Inkscape
• Piktochart
• Venngage
• Canva
• Easel.ly

Data visualization tools:

• Gapminder
• Tableau
• Google Public Data
• Infogr.am

Please tag your posts with #MiLibSnap and I look forward to seeing your great posts on social media.

Sonya Schryer Norris

Library Consultant

Library of Michigan

702 W. Kalamazoo St.

P.O. Box 30007
Lansing, MI 48909-7507

Ph: 517-373-4457

Fax: 517-373-5700

Check out the curated content on the LM homepage including state and national CE offerings, LM events, stats reports, headlines from around the library world and intriguing snapshots of our varied collections at http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan

http://mel.org

http://michlibrary.org

Our collective efforts can help make Michigan a Top 10 education state in 10 years!  Here are the goals and strategies: http://mi.gov/top10in10/