Reference and Adult Services Division of the Suffolk County Library Association
The RASD PR & Marketing Committee presents the marketing plans submitted for the SLMA (Suffolk Library Marketing Award) this past year 2015.
Click on the links below to see the applications. They are Adobe PDF files.
Patchogue Medford Presentation (Winner)
Please note the change in time for the January 21st roundtable discussion and presentation of the three marketing campaigns submitted for the 2015 Suffolk Library Marketing Award – SLMA. We will now be meeting after the Heads of Reference Meeting, in the SCLA Auditorium at 11:30 a.m. on 1/21/16. All are welcome to participate in this opportunity to learn about three unique events done in 2015 by your colleagues. Plan to stay after the Heads of Reference meeting, join us and get inspired. If time allows we will also be looking at the ALA John Cotton Dana Award winners for 2015.
Contact info:
Jo-Ann Carhart, MLS
Head of Adult Services
Librarian III
East Islip Public Library
381 East Main Street
East Islip, NY 11730
Phone (631) 581-9200 x 5
jcarhart@eipl.org
www.eipl.org
Please join us for a roundtable discussion on emerging technology at the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library on Thursday, December 10, 9:30 coffee 10am meeting. We’ll talk about some of the trends for 2016, including aggregated learning and predictive consumerism, and how they will affect our libraries.
Dave Jones from the Westhampton Library do a presentation on Virtual Reality and Oculus.
All are welcome! Please consider joining RASD. Learn more about the benefits of membership at https://scla.net/rasd/.
The winners have been announced! The 2015 RASD SLMA Awards were presented at the SCLA Dinner at Villa Lombardi’s. We are happy to announce that Connetquot Library (Susann Altman) received a certificate of participation for their “Celebrating 40 Years “campaign, the Smithtown Library (Julie DeLaney, Public Relations Assistant) received an Honorable Mention ribbon for their “350th Anniversary of Smithtown Program” and the Patchogue/Medford Library (Laura Accardi, Library Development Assistant & Karen McCahey, Community Program Coordinator) won this year’s SLMA Award for their “We Love You Too” campaign. They will have SLMA Plaque to display in their library for one year.
Please be sure to attend the RASD PR & Marketing Committee Meeting on 1/21/16 at SCLS at 10:00 a.m. to review the details of these creative marketing campaigns and to share your ideas. Thanks go out to the RASD Board for supporting this award and to SCLA for allowing us to present it at the Annual Dinner.
Jo-Ann Carhart and Joan Cook, Co-Chairs