BPL: The Ultimate Search Engine

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BOSTON Though libraries may increasingly become relics in the Google-driven Web 2.0 era, Allen & Gerritsen positions the Boston Public Library system as the ultimate search engine and portrays its librarians as “heroes of information” in a new campaign.

A new campaign by the Watertown, Mass., agency, tagged “What do you want to know?” plays up the resources of the BPL’s 27 branches and focuses on the human element often absent from Internet-based searches.

In fact, the BPL librarians’ ability to locate and share knowledge is at the crux of the campaign.

One execution stars the BPL’s Maurice Gordon, accompanied by the headline, “The fastest way to clear out a bar? Have me show up for trivia night.”

Another

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