Elevating the School Library: Building Positive Perceptions through Brand Behavior
English
By (author): Paperblanks Sara Kelly Johns Susan D. Ballard
- includes templates, checklists, and worksheets to assist you in undertaking school library branding, a rebrand, or a brand rehabilitation;
- offers concrete guidance and techniques for engaging effectively with your community by creating a strategic communications plan;
- walks you through incorporating the use of data and community demographics analysis to improve your practice and thus increase positive perceptions of the impact of your work;
- shows how to use existing AASL personas as well as how to develop additional learner personas (such as trauma-sensitive, special groups and non-users) through a brand audit;
- presents a focused exploration of brand behavior, emphasizing the impact, influence, and integrity of brand credibility;
- analyzes the work of Jim Collins (Good to Great), John Kotter (Our Iceberg is Melting), and others to shed light on the importance of the business aspects of the school library; and
- spotlights successful and unsuccessful examples of branding from the realm of both business and libraries, connecting them to the AASL Standards.