Social Networking in Libraries

A-active, in order for your library patrons to view you as being serious about your social networking and for it to work for you and your library, you need to use it on a regular basis.
B- Blog, does your library have a blog. This is a great way for you to offer value [...]

Do 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. [...]

Why 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 to [...]

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 you [...]

What do you think about the idea of a community virtual library? I recently found this and I found the idea interesting. With the increase in the number of electronic resources more and more of the “library” is now available for access via the internet, in electronic format.

So what about the concept that your public [...]

Creating a better library blog requires you to increase the amount of readers who read your blog on a regular basis. Here are some ideas on how to do this:
1. Make sure you follow the ideas in part 2 to offer the kind of content that will attract more readers.
2. Make sure that the RSS button for [...]

Creating a better library blog requires you to think about your target audience. Even though it is already obvious that your target audience is your library patrons, in many cases you still need to be even more specific. If you are an academic library then your audience will be primarily your students and staff. However, [...]