Dublin, OH - July 10, 2019 - Patron Point announced today that the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service, Oregon, (CCRLS) has implemented its patron relationship management system for use by both central staff and member libraries.

John Goodyear, Executive Director of the CCRLS, comments, "Providing our member libraries with modern tools to better market both their services and that of the Cooperative was a key element in our discussions with Patron Point." Goodyear continues, "At the same time, we wanted our central staff to have the ability to better promote the services we offer as well as enhance much of the routine communications that we support day in and day out."

Goodyear states, "As we began this project we set goals to increase community awareness of our libraries and CCRLS services; increase traffic to libraries, circulation of e-resources, and event attendance; and do what we can to generate buzz among our users".

As part of the rollout of services, CCRLS has formed a PR Committee that will provide overall coordination and guidance of the system implementation. Both CCRLS and Patron Point will work along with member libraries to identify and implement both centralized and member library marketing programs. As the Patron Point platform will be implemented at the consortial systems level, templates, graphics and workflows can be shared among libraries and central staff. At the same time, Patron Point can be configured to provide any library with dedicated capacity to keep library-specific communications exclusive to that library.

CCRLS will focus on system issues and services while providing member libraries the freedom to run their own campaigns and promotions. "It's absolutely critical that our member libraries remain the primary contact point for our end user and will continue to develop and foster those relationships", continued Goodyear.

"We're particularly excited to work with CCRLS on this implementation", states Patron Point's Vice President of Community, Gene Shimshock. "Patron Point is uniquely designed to handle the additional layer of complexity that results from a consortium environment implementation."

Patron Point has been installed and is currently in an early-stage rollout within the CCRLS systems environment.

About the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service

Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (www.ccrls.org) connects libraries in Marion, Polk, Yamhill counties and a small portion of Linn County of Oregon. There are currently seventeen libraries in the cooperative, serving nearly 465,000 people. The Cooperative was created in 1973 as a way for public libraries to share information resources. It maintains a collection of 1.1 million items held by member libraries and supports a circulation of 2.25 million.

About Patron Point

Patron Point is the first of its kind patron relationship management system built specifically for public libraries harnessing data from a wide range of library systems including the ILS, eBook platforms, event/PC/room booking systems, databases and website to build a unified view of the patron's engagement with the library. With Patron Point, libraries can use this data to segment its audience and produce personalized email and web communications that attract and more fully engage the patron. Libraries can benefit immediately from a foundation of Proven Programs or create their own workflows that are customized to their unique user communities and needs.

With Patron Point, a library can:

• Make its marketing more engaging and targeted;
• Drive collection use and program attendance;
• Deliver a more personalized digital patron experience; and
• Measure patron engagement across the full range of patron activities.

For more information on Patron Point, see our website.