 | Developing Strategic Marketing Plans That Really Work: A Toolkit for Public Libraries Public libraries are increasingly aware of the need for good marketing. Underlying this is a need for competence in marketing planning. Many government and other reports stress the need to get public libraries back into the lives of their users and potential users and this requires significant marketing effort. However, it quickly becomes apparent to public librarians that marketing is far more than simply creating a set of leaflets for their marketing communications. What they need is a simple, practical guide to the whole marketing planning process from goals to implementation of marketing strategies and communications. And along the way they need to troubleshoot the barriers that such activities meet. Readership : The text is fully international in scope and is written for all those practitioners who recognize the importance of marketing in shaping and positively influencing the direction of public library services. Terry Kendrick is a strategic marketing planning consultant, and has worked on assignments in 17 different countries for over 50 organizations. He is a marketing and internet trainer for CILIP, a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a unit organizer and lecturer on the MBA programme at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. |
