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What a great idea! A video tour of the library for parents and others would be a great addition to any library web site.

As librarians, we sometimes get really caught up in the research and technology aspects of our jobs. After all, everybody knows that librarians are proponents of reading, so we don’t have to talk about that much. Reading promotion, however, is still one of the most important things that we do.

You may have read my recent posting about the NECC session that I attended called School Library 2.5. Embedded in that post were some fabulous ideas from Anita Beaman, librarian at Illinois State University’s laboratory high school, about promoting reading using web 2.0 tools. While everyone that presented had fantastic ideas to share, Anita’s were the biggest “a-ha” for me.

Take some time to look at her wiki and this article she wrote for Knowledge Quest, then try a couple of her strategies to reach your readers the 2.0 way. Let us know how you did in the comments.

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