Inside, Outside, and Online: Building Your Library Community

by Chrystie Hill

Inside, Outside, and Online provides practical advice and inspiration for building community with your library. Based on a scan of the community and technology environments that libraries operate within, related literature, and the practical experiences of hundreds of library staff actively building communities through their work, the book provides much-needed insights into the essential elements of community building through

* Identifying user needs and designing services to meet those needs
* Engaging communities with service selection, creation, and iteration
* Utilizing practical new technologies

Whatever your role, and whatever size or type of library, the principles outlined here can support anyone working to build a strong community of engaged, interested, and satisfied library users.

Genres: Nonfiction, Ebooks

194 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this book was wildly out of date especially for the online piece I did get some program ideas while reading.

[Lauren · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh, not the greatest. This felt surface-level at best, and unfortunately a lot of the information is quite out of date at this point. Still, not a bad book, but just not what I expected it to be.