Personal Outreach in a Virtual World
For all the wonders of social media and other forms of virtual communications, I still find the most successful outreach programs are face to face. The power of personal contact is as old as the human race. In today's world, think of the impact a hand-written letter or a phone call has in the...
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2015-09-01
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For all the wonders of social media and other forms of virtual communications, I still find the most successful outreach programs are face to face. The power of personal contact is as old as the human race. In today's world, think of the impact a hand-written letter or a phone call has in the midst of our daily flood of e-mail and cell phone texts. In the same way, I am convinced that face-to-face outreach usually has the same high impact because it is increasingly rare. Is not one of the main objectives of the current interest in embedded librarians direct personal contact with patrons?
Let me describe the three most successful outreach programs I have engaged in during my 15-year career as an academic science librarian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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| spelling | doaj-art-7d4be7c5e4e94531bf53cc9657cc7bb72025-08-20T03:56:47ZengUniversity of Alberta LibraryIssues in Science and Technology Librarianship1092-12062015-09-018110.29173/istl1659Personal Outreach in a Virtual WorldA. Ben Wagner For all the wonders of social media and other forms of virtual communications, I still find the most successful outreach programs are face to face. The power of personal contact is as old as the human race. In today's world, think of the impact a hand-written letter or a phone call has in the midst of our daily flood of e-mail and cell phone texts. In the same way, I am convinced that face-to-face outreach usually has the same high impact because it is increasingly rare. Is not one of the main objectives of the current interest in embedded librarians direct personal contact with patrons? Let me describe the three most successful outreach programs I have engaged in during my 15-year career as an academic science librarian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/istl/index.php/istl/article/view/1659 |
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