Program: RA On a Budget (Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries conference, May 9-11, 2012)
For an outline of this program as a Word document, please click on this link.
Free Title Awareness
Reader's Advisor Online Run Down
Publishers' Weekly On-sale Calendar
Morton Grove Public Library Reader's Corner
Free (and useful) Tech Tools for RA
For document sharing:
Google Docs (https://docs.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0&pli=1#home)
PBwiki (https://plans.pbworks.com/signup/basic20)
OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/why/)--particularly if you can't afford PowerPoint
For marketing:
Blogger (blog software): http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41345&topic=10424&ctx=topic
WordPress (blog software): http://wordpress.com/
10 free blog softwares: http://topsitesblog.com/blog-websites/
Tumblr (micro-blogging): https://www.tumblr.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ (you can always do an institutional "page")
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/
Book cataloging: GoodReads (http://www.goodreads.com/); Shelfari (http://www.shelfari.com/)
For communication/sharing:
Skype: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home
Looking for Ideas?
Pinterest is a Valuable Tool for Your Library
Blogging for a Good Book (award-winning book blog using free software)
Book Menage (online book club)
RA and Marketing; Practical Marketing for Public Libraries