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Public vs. Academic digital branch
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Public vs. Academic digital branch
5:15 PM EDT 9/15/09
Another question for David and others from the Building the Digital Branch for the 21st Century webinar:

"David do you think this process will work differently for academic libraries?"

"What are the differences in building community between public and academic libraries?"
RE: Public vs. Academic digital branch
6:07 PM EDT 9/15/09 as a reply to Jennifer Peterson.
I think the difference here is clientele and goals:

Goals - might be different in the different types of libraries. IE., public libraries are ultimately interested in anyone and everyone coming in... academic libraries have some obvious target audiences built in.

Clientele - academics have students, profs, staff, distance ed students, etc...

The main thing to do with ANY type of library is to establish some goals - what do you hope to accomplish? Then go after those. And that doesn't change between library types.