Making Our Voices Heard: a workshop on media and communications in libraries delivered by Ian Anstice of Public Libraries News and Simon Barron of Voices for the Library at the CILIP in Wales Conference on 18th May 2012.

1. Making Our Voices Heard

2. Map from
www.publiclibrariesnews.com

3. “Yet in an interesting twist to the classic image of
librarians, recent depictions show librarians as zealous
and even violent protestors of good against evil.
Batgirl, a librarian by profession, is the classic comic
book heroine battling evil and fighting crime with
information power. The television show Buffy the
Vampire Slayer also depicts a librarian fighting
injustice and standing on the side of right.
The controversy over the U.S. PATRIOT Act, resulting
in librarians being dubbed “hysterical Ruby Ridge-type
radicals,” has added to this image as defenders of the
public good.”
- From Sacred Stacks by
Nancy Kalikow Maxwell.
Photos from Flickr courtesy
of Richard Hawkins (left)
and Tom Roper (right).

4. Who?
Who do you think of as
a good communicator?

7. What?
What does a
communications or
marketing officer do?

9. Posters from Flickr courtesy
of Phil Bradley.

10. You!
What experience do you
have communicating
with the media?

11. How?
What skills do you need
to be an effective
communicator?

12. http://xkcd.com/756/
from xkcd by Randall Monroe

13. Communicate with us:
ianlibrarian@live.co.uk
@publiclibnews
www.publiclibrariesnews.com
simon.barron.19@gmail.com
@SimonXIX
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