Free publicity for my library

A few months ago, Susan McGlamery called to ask me a favor. She said OCLC want to take a few pictures of her to use in their annual report to note their acquisition of the 24/7 Reference Project in 2004, which Susan is the head of. Recently relocated to NYC, Susan asked if she could have the pictures taken in our library, as the OCLC photographers were interested in showing her in one of the libraries that uses 24/7 Reference for their chat reference service. No problem, I said. Then the photographers called me to see if I wouldn't mind being in some of the photos, too. Being an agreeable guy, I said sure. On the appointed day, the photographers said they wanted to take some other photos in the library that they might use in other publications. Lo and behold, our photos got used extensively in the just published annual report from OCLC.

Here's a posting from our library's news feed about it. The posting includes a link to the PDF of the report.