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2014 Library Communications Conference Notes

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Facebook memories can be great to help you remember stuff!

Recently, while browsing through my Facebook feed, a memory popped up of this image of conference notes (with some doodles). After a little research, I was able to determine these notes I took a photo of and posted, were from the 2014 LCC (Library Communications Conference) where I was a keynote presenter and session presenter, along with colleague and longtime library consultant and author of The Accidental Library Marketer, Kathy Dempsey. I also noticed on the agenda that my then colleague Jason Broughton (now the director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled) was also presenting as well as Jennifer Burke, president of IntelliCraft Research.

Through social media, I’m able to keep up with what these colleagues are doing in and out of the profession. AND, I’m able to remember what I did too!

If you read through my session notes (which obviously made a great impact on my career), you’ll see a great deal of content that holds true today and will probably stay with us for quite some time. User experience and way-finding in libraries are still important. We should all keep up-to-date with new skills and techniques to give library patrons the best experience and best access to information possible.

I offer customized training sessions on many of these topics so be sure to visit my Consulting Services page to learn more.

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    Dr. Curtis Rogers is a library consultant who has worked in the library and information science field for over 35 years. He has worked at the Union (SC) Carnegie Library, and the Charleston County (SC) Public Library, and retired as the Communications Director of the South Carolina State Library. He has also taught courses at the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, a Master of Library and Information Science, and a Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Carolina. In 2001, he completed the University of the Azores Summer Study Course in Azorean Portuguese Culture and Language and in 2002 completed the Certified Public Manager credential. In 2008, he was President of the SC Library Association. Rogers developed a national library survey on library use of social media for public relations and presented this survey’s results at the 2009 German Library Association Conference and at the State and University Library of Hamburg. He has served as secretary of the board of the Library Marketing and Communications Conference and as secretary of the SC Academy of Authors, as well as chair of the USC School of Library and Information Annual Literacy Leaders (ALL) Awards Committee. He has also served on the Friends of South Carolina Libraries (FOSCL) board and is a member of the ALA CORE Library Consultants group. He is a recipient of the 2015 F. William Summers Outstanding Alumni Award from the USC School of Library and Information Science.