CHIRS and Go Local Nebraska promoted at the Baright Public Library

Thanks to an invitation from the head of the Baright Public Library in Ralston, NE, CHIRS and Go Local Nebraska were promoted during yesterday's Lunch and Learn. 9 citizens attended the event, which is held monthly at the library. The library's wireless network stretched into the meeting area, so live demonstrations of Go Local Nebraska could be conducted. It was a pleasure to promote these great services in such a relaxed atmosphere, while reinforcing the consumer health information network collaboration between the local public library and McGoogan Library of Medicine. In addition to this presentation, the Baright Public Library has had the loan of one of the displays, placing it out in their high-traffic area in the library. If your library would like to request a display to use to promote Go Local Nebraska, please fill out this web form: http://app1.unmc.edu/forms/library/displayform.cfm . It will be delivered to you with return postage paid.

The Baright Public Library has made their Lunch and Learn series a successful outreach tool. They offer a free drink (coffee, tea, water) and dessert (brownies & carrot cake), and encourage attendees to bring their lunch to eat during the presentation. They have everyone drop their name in a basket, and at the end the speaker draws out a winner, who gets a prize bag of goodies (including library promotional items). Signs are up at the entrance to the meeting room, announcing the next Lunch and Learn's date and topic. Citizens attend, learn something new, and reacquaint themselves with their local library, making everyone involved a winner.