When library renovations required two STEM librarians to think about outreach without a physical library for over a year, they launched an online newsletter to keep their communities involved and aware of library goings-on. This way of thinking - engaging communities online - continued during COVID-19, when the librarians decided to launch a series of online exhibits to display STEM topics. The newsletter and exhibits created are high impact as you can customize and include all the relevant information to your target groups while maintaining a low investment in time and know-how to bring these projects to fruition. Our main point is revealing the multitude of ways librarians can connect with their communities and how we used monthly newsletters and online exhibits to share important information, new resources, workshops and events, and STEM-related content. This is relevant to librarians of all disciplines, to learn how to create, develop and sustain monthly newsletters and how to brainstorm and research interesting content for online exhibits. The softwares used, Mail Chimp and SCALAR, to create our projects are very intuitive, easy to learn, free to use, and provide user support if necessary. In addition, the analytical components within the softwares provide the capability to track your growth, exposure, and views. Our library never had a newsletter prior and few libraries are creating online displays to engage with their communities, so we want to share our unique work and showcase how librarians can thrive and connect in remote environments and promote teamwork within members of our department during our work from home efforts.

STEM library ondisplay: Connecting communities and resources via outreach initiatives

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.