Signs of a welcoming library
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 08:22AM
Doug Johnson

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Signs of a Welcoming Library
Doug Johnson
Head for the Edge, Library Media Connection, March/April 2010

As students enter the Left Overshoe School Library, they always pass this sign posted boldly by the entrance:

 

 

As students enter the Right Overshoe School Library, they always pass this sign, posted boldly by the entrance:

 

 

Increasingly information, entertainment and assistance comes to the end-user digitally instead of the end user having to go to the information, entertainment and assistance traditionally found in libraries in analog formats.

Why would anyone go to your library at all if it is not a genuinely welcoming place?

 

 

 

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