Ask a Catbrarian: Marketing Library Services Using a Cat

Authors

Teagan Eastman, Utah State UniversityFollow
Jennifer Saulnier, Loras College
Kati Richardson, Highland School District

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Marketing Libraries Journal

Volume

2

Issue

1

Publication Date

8-2018

First Page

24

Last Page

30

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.

Abstract

This case study aims to describe how employees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Undergraduate Library (UGL) utilized a cat mascot as part of a marketing campaign to promote awareness of library resources and services and to overcome undergraduate students’ library anxiety. The authors describe how the idea of a cat mascot emerged, how librarians determined campaign objectives, and the process they undertook for developing videos, social media posts, events and displays for the campaign. This article also describes how the campaign was able to build a sense of community not only among the large university library system but the entire campus community.

Recommended Citation

Eastman, T., Saulnier, J. & Richardson, K. “Ask a Catbrarian: Marketing Library Services Using a Cat.” Marketing Libraries Journal, 2 (1), 24 – 30.