[Publib] Re: Library Names

[Andy Barnett]

Libraries without the city name are pretty common. We went from the T.B. 
Scott Library to the McMillan Memorial Library in 1970.

As for what to do:
Include your city name whenever you mention yourself in public or writing. 
Librarians around the state probably know where McMillan is, but the 
general public doesn't and neither do government officials. Computers 
certainly don't.

This is especially true on your website, where you will want to make sure 
your metatext lists the city name early and often.

Answer your phone without mentioning the entire string of your name. After 
all, you might be the Charles H. White branch of the Portage County Public 
Library, but that is too much information.

Make it clear on your website just who you serve, since that may not be 
clear from your name. We serve the Wisconsin Rapids / south Wood County 
area and genealogy / local history questions about the northern part of the 
county need to go to another library. We also don't serve Nairobi, home to 
another McMillan Memorial Library.

We are fortunate that there isn't a city/village of McMillan in the state, 
but there is a McMillan Township in a neighboring county and that is enough 
to confuse some people.

Andy Barnett, Asst. Director		McMillan Memorial Library
490 East Grand Ave. Wisconsin Rapids, WI  54494			
		www.mcmillanlibrary.org	
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that 
matter.  -  Martin Luther King, Jr.