Staff Briefing

As you are no doubt aware National Libraries Day is taking place on Saturday 6h February this year.

This campaign has built year on year and as you may recall we had a lot of social media content and also undertook a survey with library users asking them why they love their library and have generated some great content which we will repackage for use this year. 2016 Plans

The audience development team will put together a social media content plan, collate and update existing material and generate press releases. We will share content that you can use on your social media pages.

We will also use the Wales-specific hashtags #NLDWales #DCLCymru to link all social media activity and enable us to track and collate posts.

We are creating some artwork for a selfie frame which you will be able to download and use locally – get as many people as possible to have their photos taken and use the hashtag to put these up on social media – users and staff. How can you get involved?

Let us know if you are having any special events either on the day or in the week leading up to – we can then collate a list of events from across Wales to use with the press release, promote via our social media pages and highlight selected events on the welshlibraries.org website.

Library staff – do you have any staff with unusual hobbies, special qualities, staff who have been in the service a very long time, new staff – basically we want photographs and a very short biography for as many staff as we possibly can – we will use these on social media, in press stories and on the website (make sure consent is given)

Quirky stories – the strangest thing ever found in a library book, special people/characters who come into the library, haunted libraries, library pets.

Heart-warming stories – the value of staff; libraries contribution to social inclusion, improving literacy, solving problems, enabling people, tackling poverty – illustrating how libraries contribute to so many different political agendas.

Short films – use your Smart Phone or library tablet to do short films of staff and users (with permission) make sure you use the mobile device in landscape format. Use the logos and use the hashtags!