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  • 1.  Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 28, 2018 09:23 AM
    What does everyone use for their email newsletters? We've been using Microsoft's Publisher, but we encounter a lot of formatting issues along the way. We're looking for something cheap and easy. Our next several months' worth of newsletters are already pre-written in Publisher, but we can re-do that if it's a good product.  Thanks all.

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    Katie Hutchison
    Student Engagement & Archival Services Librarian
    Walsh University
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  • 2.  RE: Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 29, 2018 08:23 AM
    Our high school library uses Smore for our newsletters.

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    Michelle Gilliam
    Media Specialist
    Portland High School
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  • 3.  RE: Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 30, 2018 08:25 AM
    Last year I tried several different resources for my school library newsletter.  (I am in a 5-8 building.)  I used the free versions of S'More, Buncee, Easel.ly, and LucidPress.  There were features I liked about each one and I never really found one that had all of the capability that I wanted in one place...at least not in the free versions I was using to try them out.  In the end, I decided to pay for a full version of LucidPress.  My thought process was that if I was going to have to pay for the full features that I wanted regardless, then I wanted to buy the one that gave me the most features I was looking for at a reasonable price.  I paid for this out of my own pocket, since the District wasn't going to fund it, but it was important enough to me to be able to create newsletters for my students and staff that I decided it was worth it.

    Leigh Zika
    School Librarian/Tech Integration
    Eveleth-Gilbert Public Schools, Gilbert Campus


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  • 4.  RE: Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 29, 2018 10:46 AM
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    We use Publisher and have had no problems with formatting. We save the files as .pdfs and upload them to the college's issuu.com account (https://issuu.com/stchas/docs).



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    Stephanie Tolson
    Dean Learning Resources & Academic Support
    St. Charles Community College
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  • 5.  RE: Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 29, 2018 12:29 PM
    We use MailChimp. It's free for up to 2000 subscribers, but after that it does cost. Our newsletters aren't super frequent, so it's cost effective for us.

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    Jennifer Shimada (jshimada@relay.edu)
    Library Director
    Relay Graduate School of Education
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  • 6.  RE: Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 30, 2018 09:49 AM
    Thanks everyone!

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    Katie Hutchison
    Student Engagement & Archival Services Librarian
    Walsh University
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  • 7.  RE: Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 30, 2018 11:46 AM
    I use Adobe Spark. It is really easy to learn and has several stock images to use for graphics.

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    David Gilley
    Student
    University of OklahomaSchool of Library & Information Studies
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  • 8.  RE: Library newsletters

    Posted Aug 30, 2018 01:26 PM
    We used MailChimp for years and really liked it, but our list got too big and we would have had to start paying. So we now use LibraryAware (EBSCO product). We already had a subscription to LibraryAware for the PR tools, and the newsletter tool comes free with the service. It works really well for simple eNewsletters. I have never used it for a complex newsletter with long articles, etc.

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    Mary Moore
    Director
    Smyrna Public Library
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