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Selling Your Library To The College Community: A Look Into Promoting An Underused Library To Ensure Student Support, Tyler J. Johnson Oct 2020

Selling Your Library To The College Community: A Look Into Promoting An Underused Library To Ensure Student Support, Tyler J. Johnson

Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings

Academic libraries have a major impact on their community. Yet, academic libraries often face challenges regarding funding, overall usage, and relevancy to the institution in the eyes of stakeholders. This requires academic librarians to work even harder to promote their library to the community. The term sales may have a negative connotation among many people, but academic librarians have been suggesting that librarians adopt certain sales techniques to support their communities. This article delves into the need for librarians to use certain sales techniques to promote the library to their community with a focus on ensuring student support. Specifically, this …


Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins, Stacey F. Stearns Sep 2020

Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins, Stacey F. Stearns

Journal of Applied Communications

A review of Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins, by Mark Schaefer.


Examining Consumers' Trust In The Food Supply Chain, Chadelle R.H. Robinson, Taylor K. Ruth, R.G. "Tre" Easterly Iii, Fayth Franzoy, Jay Lillywhite May 2020

Examining Consumers' Trust In The Food Supply Chain, Chadelle R.H. Robinson, Taylor K. Ruth, R.G. "Tre" Easterly Iii, Fayth Franzoy, Jay Lillywhite

Journal of Applied Communications

Consumers are concerned about the quality and safety of their food at all times during the food supply chain, but sensationalized media coverage, lack of knowledge, and recent recalls have made it difficult for consumers to trust the agricultural industry. Because trust drives risk perceptions and acceptance, it is important for agricultural communicators to understand how personal characteristics influence trust in the food supply chain. To fulfill the purpose of this study, a national quota sample of 847 responses to an online questionnaire were collected in March 2019. The results indicated respondents held a moderate level of trust toward production …