making our voices heard
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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.TRANSCRIPT
Making Our Voices Heard
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“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).
Who?
Who do you think of as a good communicator?
What?
What does a communications or
marketing officer do?
Posters from Flickr courtesy of Phil Bradley.
You!
What experience do you have communicating
with the media?
How?
What skills do you need to be an effective
communicator?
Communicate with us:
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