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Behind the Numbers: Four Years Later
In the four years since COVID-19 caused the temporary closure of public library facilities, the way people use public libraries has shifted dramatically. Join our President, Joshua Feasel, and Senior Consultant for the Savannah Platform, Kate Jacobs, for an insightful discussion of our recent white paper analyzing these changes. We will explore both short-term and long-term trends, evaluating shifts in customer behavior and discussing statistical metrics drawn from the Savannah community, allowing you to compare your own experience with that of other libraries nationwide.
Live Demo: SmartyCat for Libby
Staff time is a valuable resource for any organization. Even a small task at your library, like creating targeted messages to promote ebooks and magazines, can consume much time and reduce your marketing team's productivity. Automation tools can free up your team's time to focus on other important tasks.
Our team has collaborated with a group of Savannah libraries and OverDrive to introduce SmartyCat for Libby, the latest addition to the SmartyCat suite. This tool simplifies the marketing of your library's digital collection. Join us on November 19 for a live demo to learn more about how this Savannah module works!
Savannah Academy: The Basics
Join us for an overview of Savannah basics. This is perfect for new users or anyone looking for a refresher. Bring along your questions about Savannah's features, reports, and data, too!
Live Demo: Incident Reporting
Libraries are busy places where a lot can happen every day. Unfortunately, disruptions, accidents, and mishaps occur that require attention. With Savannah’s Incident Reporting module, you can document incidents electronically, share details with the right individuals quickly and efficiently, and anticipate future support needs through the power of analytics. Join us to learn how to deliver the right support where it is needed today – and where it will be needed most tomorrow.
Data Day 2024
Get ready to be inspired at our virtual conference, where we will hear from data-driven libraries and partners within the Savannah Community and discover how to harness your data!
Explore Event Tracker
Savannah’s Event Tracker empowers libraries to effortlessly and swiftly monitor attendance at programs. This data can be harnessed to schedule future events, assess their triumphs, comprehend audience interests and impacts, identify opportunities for enhancement, and establish more effective channels for customer feedback. Join us for a live demo to see Event Tracker in action!
Savannah Academy: The Basics
Join us for an overview of Savannah basics. This is perfect for new users or anyone looking for a refresher. Bring along your questions about Savannah's features, reports, and data, too!
A Journey To Creating a Milestone Book Festival
Are you interested in hosting a successful book festival at your library? Join our webinar to learn how the Columbus Metropolitan Library drew nearly 40,000 attendees to their own book festival and discover the data-driven strategies and tools they used to achieve such incredible success.
Increase Library Card Usage with Targeted Promotion Efforts
Have you noticed a decrease in cardholder engagement? Are people too busy to use their library cards? Have you considered implementing a strategic marketing campaign to promote your library's offerings like Summer Reading, and attract new cardholders or re-engage the ones you may have lost? If so, then this webinar is perfect for you! Join Christine Feldmann, Director of Marketing and Communications, and Sarah Kachevas, Marketing and Communications Specialist, to discover how the library collaborates with Orange Dot Studio, an agency within OrangeBoy, to execute strategic marketing campaigns consistently. Each campaign has shown impressive results, with new sign-ups and re-engagement rates steadily increasing over the past three years. Their most recent campaign successfully re-engaged 18,852 users and gained 1,045 new sign-ups. Do you want to achieve exceptional results like this for your library, too? Join us!
Savannah Academy: The Basics
Join us for an overview of Savannah basics. This is perfect for new users or anyone looking for a refresher. Bring along your questions about Savannah's features, reports, and data!
Meet Orange Dot Studio
Join us to discover the possibilities of partnering with Orange Dot Studio to bring your library projects to life. Our expert team has helped countless libraries achieve their goals through custom data analysis projects, DEI measurement, customer surveys, and other innovative projects. From utilizing our cutting-edge solutions like Market Watch, a Savannah module that can showcase your service area through GIS mapping and layer census indicators, to launching Strategic Marketing Campaigns, we’ve got you covered!
Live Demo: Incident Reporting
Libraries are busy places where a lot can happen every day. Unfortunately, disruptions, accidents, and mishaps occur that require attention. With Savannah’s Incident Reporting module, you can document incidents electronically, share details with the right individuals quickly and efficiently, and anticipate future support needs through the power of analytics. Join us to learn how to deliver the right support where it is needed today – and where it will be needed most tomorrow.
Transforming Incident Management for Tomorrow’s Challenges
Library incidents have been increasing across America, especially since the pandemic. Many organizations need an efficient way to record or communicate these occurrences. The East Baton Rouge Parish Library has experienced this firsthand. In 2019, the library implemented Savannah's Incident Reporting module, transforming its incident management procedures. Join us to learn how the library took measures to address increased stress, serious incidents, staff shortages, burnout, and more.
Live Demo: Meet SmartyCat for Events
Save valuable staff time with SmartyCat for Events! This module automates your event messaging and increases engagement with your library’s cardholders. Savannah libraries have successfully re-engaged over 584,203 users with 1,567 automated messages. See SmartyCat for Events in action on Tuesday, May 21, and take targeting to a new level. Benefits include increased engagement, expanded presence in the community, and extended marketing resources.
Savannah Academy: The Basics
Join us for an overview of Savannah basics. Perfect for new users or anyone looking for a refresher! Bring along your questions about Savannah's features, reports, and data, too!
Increase Cardholder Engagement with SmartyCat for Events!
Montgomery County Public Libraries promoted its programs at 21 branches by sending over 2.2 million emails using SmartyCat for Events. These emails attracted over 75,000 clicks from cardholders interested in learning about the library's events. The library impressively re-engaged 19,283 Occasional and 3,035 Inactive users, with a median open rate of 39%. Join us to learn how this module can automate marketing emails, integrate seamlessly with event calendar feeds to generate targeted email messages, expand outreach efforts and more!
Live Demo:Meet SmartyCat for Libby
Staff time is a valuable resource for any organization. Even a small task at your library, like creating targeted messages to promote ebooks and magazines, can consume much time and reduce your marketing team's productivity. Automation tools can free up your team's time to focus on other important tasks.
Our team has collaborated with a group of Savannah libraries and OverDrive to introduce SmartyCat for Libby, the latest addition to the SmartyCat suite. This tool simplifies the marketing of your library's digital collection. Join us on April 30 for a live demo to learn more about how this new Savannah module works!
Meet SmartyCat for Libby, Your Newest Staff Member!
Save your marketing team's time by automating tasks like building targeted messages to promote your library's digital collection. We have partnered with Savannah libraries and OverDrive to bring you SmartyCat for Libby - a new feature that simplifies the marketing of your library's digital collection.
Join us on April 24 for a webinar to learn how this timesaving module benefits your library's marketing strategy, integrates with curated lists in your library's OverDrive Marketplace, boosts patron engagement and how the Savannah Community plans to use this new OrangeBoy feature!
Incident Reporting Demo
Libraries often have to deal with incidents and accidents that require staff time to report and follow up on. It can also be difficult to keep track of disruptive individuals across multiple locations. Savannah's Incident Reporting module allows your staff to quickly document incidents, share important details with the right individuals, and use analytics to anticipate future support needs. Join us for a live demo to learn more about how this module works!
How to Say the Hard Things: Lessons Learned in Years of Crisis
Join Brandi Cummings, Assistant Director at Kenosha Public Library, for insights on navigating difficult community conversations. Learn valuable strategies for crisis communication, develop messaging with OrangeBoy's Savannah, empower frontline teams, activate community advocates, and make a positive impact in your community!
Savannah Academy: The Basics
Join us for an overview of Savannah basics. Perfect for new users or anyone looking for a refresher! Bring along your questions about Savannah's features, reports, and data, too!
Meet Orange Dot Studio
Orange Dot Studio is an agency that offers support when Savannah Libraries do not have the time or staff to analyze data, create reports, update strategic plans, and more. We have helped countless libraries achieve their goals through custom data analysis, DEI measurement, customer surveys, and other innovative initiatives. Join us to learn more about partnering with Orange Dot Studio for your library projects!
Advancing Equity Dashboard Enoch Pratt Free Library
The Pratt has launched the Advancing Equity Dashboard to measure its progress towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. The dashboard provides baseline information on staff, partnerships, digital equity, community engagement, programs, and outreach. Join Chief of Equity and Fair Practice, M'Balu "Lu" Bangura, to see the dashboard in action and learn about its development and expected outcomes.
Measuring Strategic Projects: A Case Study About School Partnerships
St. Joe County Public Library partnered with local public schools to provide every kindergarten class a library visit where the students received a library card and borrowed a book. Sign-ups for children aged 7-9 increased from 137 to 962 in the first cohort. With Savannah's analytical capabilities, the library tracked data and proved continued engagement. Join us to learn how to partner with schools, use Savannah for tracking initiatives, and evaluate performance with a data partner.
Live Demo: Savannah's Custom Report Builder
Are you interested in creating custom reports for your Savannah dashboard? Join us for a demo of the Power BI Embedded module, which allows you to use the data from Savannah's data warehouse to generate personalized reports that explore your data insights!
Savannah Academy: The Basics
Join us for an overview of Savannah basics. Perfect for new users or anyone looking for a refresher! Bring along your questions about Savannah's features, reports, and data, too!
Savannah Academy: The Basics
Join us for an overview of Savannah basics. Perfect for new users or anyone looking for a refresher! Bring along your questions about Savannah's features, reports, and data, too!
Incident Reporting Demo
Libraries can be busy places where a lot can happen! Unfortunately, disruptions, accidents, and mishaps occur daily, requiring attention, documentation, and details to be shared with the right team members. With Incident Reporting from Savannah®, you can document incidents electronically, share details with the right individuals quickly and efficiently, and anticipate future support needs through the power of analytics.
Using Data to Engage Underserved Communities: Oak Park Public Library’s Journey
The Oak Park Public Library (OPPL) developed its first Anti-Racism Strategic Plan in 2021. As part of this new plan, one of the goals was to reach out to historically, intentionally, and traditionally marginalized communities in their area.
To achieve this, OPPL and OrangeBoy teams collaborated to create a multi-channel integrated marketing campaign using Savannah data to reach different historically marginalized community segments. The campaign had specific messaging and a call to action for each component to raise awareness about the Anti-Racism Strategic Plan.
Join Jodi Kolo, Director of Communications, to learn about the planning behind the initiative and how the team utilized Savannah data to support the execution and measure results.
Using Net Promoter Score (NPS) Data To Tell Your Library’s Story
Do you struggle with collecting and sharing qualitative data for your stakeholders? Savannah® libraries are using data to make informed decisions by employing Net Promoter Score (NPS), a customer loyalty metric that gauges customer satisfaction through a one-question scale. It has proven to be a valuable management tool in various industries. In Savannah, NPS has been automated, allowing libraries to collect continuous feedback from their customers about their library experiences.