TweetWhat Should I Read Next? is an innovative site you can use to help yourself or your patrons find a book they will enjoy reading. This site lets you enter in the title of a book you have read recently which you enjoyed and then the site gives you a list of other similar titles [...]
TweetThis Place I Know is a social networking site designed to allow the users to create pages based on a place that they are familiar with and then the other users can read what they have posted and comment. I haven’t actually done this yet, but I was thinking, hey what about writing about your [...]
Tweet1.Change your website into a blog or wiki. 2. Create a facebook profile and invite your patrons to add you as a friend. 3. Create a version of your library in second life. 4. Catalog some of your books with librarything.com 5. Start a library blog and invite patron contributions. 6. Start a library podcast [...]
TweetHow do we start using social networking in our library? While every library is different, the best advice I can give you would be to pick one application and get people used to using it before using another one. Why should every library use social networking? There are many reasons, some of which include the [...]
TweetCommunity Walk is a fairly new social networking site which allows you to create maps and information about any location in your community or otherwise. If you are a public library especially although even college libraries or special libraries could do this too, you could create a map of your library with information about it [...]
Tweet!–StartFragment–> Create a facebook page for your library Create a myspace page for your library Use twitter to announce new library materials Turn your library web page into a blog Create a library wiki Create a squidoo lens for your library Create a library in second life Create a ning community for your library Create [...]
TweetWhy should libraries consider using social networking? Social networking can help libraries connect with their patrons, interact with their patrons and staff, publicize their services and programs and run their libraries more effectively. What social networking application is the most popular with libraries? It depends on what kind of library you are as well as [...]
TweetHave you considered using social networking applications in your library as a substitute for paid software? For many low budget libraries this is an increasing trend. The number of office 2.0 applications which are developed and made available to the world for usage both in libraries and in offices and by virutally everyone is increasing [...]
TweetHave you ever considered using social networking sites for research? I had considered it for business but not for academics. Aparently it is a quickly growing trend. Check out this article all about social networking for research.
TweetYou would think that I would have tried Library Thing before now but for some reason or another I never found the time to try it until now. I just entered a bunch of books from my library’s business collection just to try it out and I have to say after taking a few minutes [...]
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