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Unlocking the Hidden Value in Your Library Collection

As a law or government librarian, your collection is one of your greatest assets - second only to your expertise and knowledge. But even the most carefully curated resources can sit underutilized if your users and stakeholders don’t know they exist. While many libraries spend significant budgets on collections, the real value comes when those resources are actively used to inform research, support decisions, and drive your organization’s goals.

Liberty Digital’s powerful dashboards, real-time reporting, and flexible analytics make it simple to uncover these hidden gems – so you can promote them strategically, boost engagement, and demonstrate your library’s impact. Here’s how –

 

Use Your Data to Unlock Your Collection’s Potential

 

Your data shows you what’s working, and what’s not. Liberty Digital helps you pinpoint underused resources so you can promote them and prove your value.

  • Data Shows You What’s Hidden: Liberty Digital helps you track usage trends, identify underused items, and pinpoint opportunities to promote them.

  • Promotion Drives Results: With smart reporting and easy-to-share dashboards, you can show the impact of your promotional efforts – protecting your budget and making your library indispensable.

How This Data Helps You Do Your Job

 

Your data isn’t just numbers; it’s proof you’re making a difference. Liberty Digital gives you what you need to impress stakeholders, save time, and grow your impact.

 

  • Impress your stakeholders: Deliver clear proof that your collection investment is paying off.

  • Save time: Let Liberty Digital handle the heavy lifting with automated reporting and dashboards you can share in minutes.

  • Grow your impact: Targeted promotion strategies boost circulation and position you as a proactive, data-driven knowledge manager.

 

Smart Ways to Promote Hidden Collections

 

  1. Targeted Emails
    Use Liberty Digital’s insights to craft monthly emails highlighting new or underused titles. Include links straight to your catalog so users can reserve them on the spot. Track downloads* to show measureable impact.

           “Email is the only place where people, not algorithms, are in control.” – Ann Handley, Writer, Digital Marketing Pioneer, and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author

  1. Infographics
    Turn usage data into easy-to-digest visuals. Show growth in access to the catalog, highlight spikes from promotions, and present results to your leadership team to build confidence in your strategy. To create this for your law or government library, use a tool like Piktochart’s AI Infographic Maker.

  1. Newsletters
    Use the built-in newsletter feature in Liberty Digital to send a quarterly or monthly roundup of featured titles, important updates, and hidden gems across your physical and digital resources. You can automate these or customize them to match your patrons’ interests, so your users always know what’s new in your collection.

Your collection deserves to shine – and so do you. With Liberty Digital’s reporting and promotional tools, you can turn underused resources into success stories that protect your budget, grow your influence, and make your library’s value undeniable.

*Replace number of ‘checkouts and holds’ with number of downloads for the percentage calculator tool.

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