tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409282.post113441007632840863..comments2023-12-06T00:33:53.113-08:00Comments on Library Marketing - Thinking Outside the Book: Creativity is key, the rest is just detailsJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09831759940834361548noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9409282.post-1134482091580219462005-12-13T05:54:00.000-08:002005-12-13T05:54:00.000-08:00Jill - thanks for sharing your thoughts about tech...Jill - thanks for sharing your thoughts about techniques for stimulating creativity. Creating Passionate Users is certainly a good blog to follow for inspiration. And thanks for suggesting other sources. I think what you call creativity is what I would refer to as innovation - coming up with a new idea - or possibly just trying something that would be new for your library. Let's face it. We can't all be creative geniuses, but there is no reason why we can't learn what the creative folks are doing and figure out if something makes sense - first! - for our user community and then make an effort to implement that idea - and to sometimes take a risk in doing so. It doesn't do much good to come up with a creative idea if you aren't willing to take the risks involved in giving it a try - and perhaps failing. In terms of what I think promotes creativity/innovation, I would point to "keeping up" - but particularly in disciplines other than your own. If you just follow the library literature, you are going to miss all sorts of creative work going on in other fields. I think many of the creative ideas simply come from being influenced by something you read or see, and morphing that idea into something new for your environment. So I would encourage librarians to develop a regimen for following a set of magazines, newspapers, blogs, etc. that stimulate their thinking about whatever is of most interest to them personally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com