Tweet How many academic libraries have you visited on facebook? If you work for an academic library, does your library have a facebook fan page? How active is it? I found this very interesting survey about academic libraries on facebook. I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments.
TweetLearn how to use lib guides with facebook to increase your traffic to your lib guides and more.
TweetIread is a facebook application you can use to promote and share books on facebook and it has some great library features as well. Watch me show you how to use it.
TweetWhat does it take for a library facebook fan page to work? There are lots of things that can make it work. Let’s take a look at 10 great facebook fan pages for a variety of libraries. 1. Geek the library. This page is promoting library funding so it’s an important cause and they are [...]
Tweet Have you tried using facebook in the college classroom? What about using facebook with your library literacy demonstrations? The ways in which you can use facebook in the classroom are in fact, unlimited. This article from online college on 101 ways to use facebook in the classroom, proves this. So how can you use [...]
TweetDo you have a facebook fan page? If not, you really should create one. In any case, why limit your facebook fan page to information about the library, photos, and announcements? Your facebook fan page for your library is a great place to offer and teach library literacy to your patrons, students, staff and faculty. [...]
TweetWhy not use facebook in a library class presentation? While that may seem a bit outrageous, there are actually several ways that you can incorporate facebook into a library literacy class presentation. Here are some ideas of how to do this: 1. See part I with polls and ask students to answer questions by responding [...]
Tweet Using facebook in the classroom as a teaching tool has been presented as an idea by many people in recent months. Most college students are already on there and so instead of fighting against it and trying to get them to go elsewhere, why not just use facebook as a library literacy tool? If [...]
TweetBy Josh Hanagarne World’s Strongest Librarian I recently attended Internet Librarian 2009 in Monterey, California. Other than the clam chowder I had on the wharf, here was the most memorable part of the trip: When a speaker began to lose the audience’s attention, Twitter, Facebook, and even Second Life started popping up on everyone’s phones [...]
TweetSo you are putting together a fan page on facebook for your library? What should you include? Here are 10 great things to include: 1. photos of your library. 2. a library video tour or other promotional videos. 3. a calendar of library events. 4. a rss feed of your library blog. 5. information about [...]
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