[Michlib-l] Revised: APRA DIGITAL CONTENT SURVEYS For STAFF AND PATRONS! Please post!

[Kate Pohjola Andrade]

If you had difficulty with the links in the previous document, they are
fixed here

Digital Content? Statewide Advertising? How great is it that your library
received thousands of free audio and ebook content available in perpetuity
through OverDrive for your community? And a statewide marketing campaign to
let all residents know what is available at their local library? Pretty
great, right? We agree!

But we aren’t done yet…we need your assistance. Since these items were
purchased with grant funds through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
(ARPA), certain requirements need to be completed as with any grant. So,
can we count on you to help with the following three items?

*Surveys*
STAFF SURVEY:  Click the link to complete the *STAFF SURVEY* about the
digital audiobook and ebook content your library received.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Mi83forLibraries

PATRON SURVEY:  Please share the *PATRON SURVEY* via email, newsletter,
your website, and your Facebook or Instagram platforms.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Mi83

Responses will be collected from *August 1 through September 9, 2022 *

*Stories and Testimonials*: For the last question on the surveys, we would
love for you to share any stories or testimonials about the digital content
items your library received through OverDrive. *STAFF TESTIMONIALS:*  There
are thousands of new audio and ebook titles available like job-seeking
skills, educational needs, and health and wellness topics. Perhaps you have
helped guide a patron to this new content? Maybe you had a program where
not only did you promote the physical books you had on the same topic, but
you also highlighted what was available on OverDrive with the new content? *
PATRON TESTIMONIALS: *Have patrons commented about the television ads they
have seen promoting MI Library is NOW? Have they seen the social media
posts and wondered what YOUR library received through the grant? Please
share your stories!

*Thanks to Legislators: *If someone gave you much-needed grant funds, you’d
be sure to thank them, right? Well, federal legislators, through the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), gave our state $4 million
in ARPA funding. We need to make sure we let them know how much it means to
libraries and our communities. Take a few minutes and say thank you. Not
sure who to contact?  Click here
<https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member>.

On behalf of the Michigan Cooperative Directors Association, the Library of
Michigan, and the Michigan Library Association, thank you for taking part
in this statewide program!

Funding for the MI-83 Digital Library Connection project is provided in
part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library of
Michigan, an agency of the Michigan Department of Education. Project
partners include the Michigan Library Cooperatives and the Michigan Library
Association, Lakeland Library Cooperative, Mid-Michigan Library League,
White Pine Library Cooperative, and Woodlands Library Cooperative.

kate
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Woodlands Library Cooperative <https://woodlands.lib.mi.us>
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