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Let's get the word out!
Okay, so we have brainstormed somewhat on things we can do to get the word out about our site here, which is super awesome - it seems like people have a lot of good ideas.
Now, let's try to act on some of those!
There are a few graduated sites on the network that are tangentially related to Libraries - English, for one - that we could put a community ad on.
If anyone here has an idea for a design we could use, post them here! Upvote ones you like and think would represent us well. :D
Ashley Nunn
Comments
- jonsca: Sci-Fi, RPG, and Photography might all be related enough. I'll see if I can think of any others. Thanks again for spearheading this!!
- Jakob: You should add a link to a description of what community ads actually are
- Jakob: Once we have some Ads, we could also try to get them visible at other library-related websites. What websites do library professionals regularly visit?
Answer by Jakob
To get an idea for a design, I'd welcome some more brainstorming. Use or avoid the traditional image of searching in a card catalog? A reading room? Something abstract (For instance I like images of mindmaps, classifications etc.)? Crashed sleves and a funny tagline?
The concept of information is very difficult to depict. Maybe the image from Shannon/Weaver or something from Otlet's Traité de Documentation (looks like the semantic web, doesn'tit?). A citation graph might be worth to depict. Internet Archive and arXiv.org are known digital libraries/archives we could visually refer to, to also include the digital nature. Anyway, I just collected some images that came to my mind, please extend!
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- Ashley Nunn: I am not sure we want to go too abstract - we want it to still be recognizable and interesting and obviously related to libraries, I think.
- Jakob: libraries *and information science* ;-) Yes, if an image is used, it should be recognizable and interesting. But there is more than books, isn't it?
- Ashley Nunn: Oh definitely. Way more avenues to explore.
- jonsca: @Jakob I agree with Ashley about not being too abstract, but for the time being, go ahead put your ideas out there! :) We'll all be able to vote on some of the candidates formally at a later date.
- Jakob: Could you also comment on the more concrete ideas or images in this answer? Examples of non-abstract ads please!
- jonsca: @Jakob Here are some ads for the physics site. I think the lower two pictures are neat to look at, but they've got too much going on for a person to take a quick look at and say "hey, that looks like an interesting/fun/topical site". I think the crashed shelves with a funny slogan might accomplish that. There will always be differing opinion on ideas, but keep them coming anyway that's the only way we'll find something! We do appreciate all of the effort you're putting in here and elsewhere.
Answer by Jakob
This is a community wiki to collect sites where to put a community ad on.
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- RPG
- Photography
- ...
Other user communities
- LibraryThing, Shelfari
- Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, ..
- Grand Comics Database (http://comics.org)
- ..
journals and groups of professionals
Comments
Answer by Jakob
Ok, here is are some images with 220x250px and text, to link to http://libraries.stackexchange.com/. Feel free to put them on your websites!
Comments
- Jakob: Looks like one could print this on a beermat! At least in Germany this would make a nice giveaway :-)
- jonsca: I like them both. I think we could probably press for something slightly more clever for the one on the left, like "Problem patrons?" or something like that.
- Ashley Nunn: I like these! Now, to start putting them out where other people will see them... :)