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This is the first of several communications that will relate to our informational campaign regarding PASCAL funding. It introduces resources that we’ve been putting together that we hope will help coordinate the effort, and will help individual libraries develop their messages. This represents work on the part of the PASCAL board, our PR committee, staff, and individual librarians.
Soon, we’ll be reporting on activities and a time line for actions that we will need to take over the coming months. Perhaps in keeping with the Olympic theme, one sagacious advisor has reminded us that we are in a marathon not a sprint. But a key thing for everyone to remember is the race has indeed started!
Structurally, there are two main components to our web support for our informational campaign. We’ve put together places to distribute information and collect it from our end users (i.e. you, and more importantly, your students and faculties), and we’ve also developed a back-end space for communicating with members. Of course, we’ll still communicate via the listservs and other channels as well.
“Open” Resources on the PASCAL Website
http://pascalsc.org/helpsavepascal.html -- This link will take you to the page which links to the “PASCAL's Funding Crisis” page on our website. Hopefully you’ve already been there by following the “Your access to this service is in Jeopardy!” link that we’ve put on our web-pages, or the stop-sign in Pascalcat. It is the most comprehensive place to refer someone to for updated information, and has links to news, documents and background information.
http://pascalsc.org/feedback.html -- This link goes to our feedback form. We are asking you to make this widely visible from your websites and encourage as many folks as you can to input a story or information. As the site grows, you’ll be able to refer by institution in order to make your own case more compelling and we’ll all be able to identify allies and generate communications more easily.
We’ll be adding a similar form for you to document collection decisions that you’ve been forced to make due to the cutbacks soon.
PASCAL Member-Only Documentation and Resources
The following two pages are available for PASCAL librarians. They are built on wiki software, and we plan to use them to communicate with you regarding activities, best practices and templates for communicating with the various stakeholders as our informational campaign unfolds. Starting out, the PASCAL wiki is also known as our “documentation center.” To access some of these pages, you may need to enter your PASCAL login in order to bring them up. The wiki pages can be accessed by going to the main page:
http://pascalsc.org/wiki/index.php5/Main_Page (PASCAL password is not required to access this page)
From the main page, there are two pages which we’ll use to communicate with you regarding the informational campaign.
PASCAL PR and Informational Materials - (direct link: http://pascalsc.org/wiki/index.php5/PASCAL_PR_and_Informational_Materials)
This is a compendium of pages and other informational material from us as well as from member libraries. The main page does not require a password, but some of the links may require your PASCAL password. As an incentive to look here, there are recently added drafts of letters to faculty from Winthrop and Furman, examples of outreach from Central Carolina TC and Coastal Carolina, and some good news and awareness links from Erskine and Clemson. Everyone needs to get into the game! Share what you’re up to.
Telling the South Carolina World about PASCAL – (direct link: http://pascalsc.org/wiki/index.php5/Telling_the_South_Carolina_World_About_PASCAL)
This page will sketch out the activities that librarians and others can and should be doing in order to spread the word. You can use it as a place to begin your activity planning.
We will send out update announcements each time a major addition to any of these pages is made.
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