Brought to you by SEFLIN and RUSA (ALA- Reference and User Services Association), this primarily asychronous eCourse is tried and true.   It has helped students, recent graduates, skilled and experienced librarians and support staff to learn methods to instill a mission driven institution that used marketing principles to drive change.

Marketing in the 21st century library is a four week course designed for MLS candidates, graduates, librarians and paraprofessionals who are charged with creating marketing and promotions plans. It will highlight the overall importance of using marketing and promotions to increase awareness and plan for the future.  It teaches participants that marketing and promotions can help us better serve our patrons in the 21st century, and improve awareness and regard for our profession.  Participants will learn how to create a marketing plan skeleton and how to strategically plan using the TIPR method (Think, Investigate, Plan and React)

Who should take this course?  Librarians, support staff, recent LIS graduates and those interested in creating marketing plans from Academic, Public, and special libraries are best suited for this course. Anyone from a library director, to a head of reference, to a reference librarian should participate. Each organizational layer can participate as a leader, a manager or a front-line member of the marketing team.

Presenter: Debra Lucas-Alfieri

Ms. Lucas-Alfieri has been the Head of Reference and Interlibrary Loan at D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY, since 2002. Her most recent book is titled "Marketing the 21st Century Library: The Time is Now", published by Elsevier. Due to the success of her first book, Debra is under contract with Elsevier to write a second textbook on managerial and leadership skills. She has taught online courses for both the Library Juice Academy and Simmons College.

Her book chapters appear in Middle Management in Academic and Public Libraries (2011) and the 21st Century Handbook of Anthropology (2010). Encyclopedia articles appear in the Encyclopedia of Power (2011), the Encyclopedia of Time (2009), the Encyclopedia of Anthropology (2005), and the20th Century Encyclopedia of Pop Culture (2000). She has also published academic journal articles in Collaborative Librarianship (2011), the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve (2009), and the Journal of Library and Information Science (2007).