Social Networking in Libraries

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 [...]

By 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 and [...]

So 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 how to contact your library.
6. library [...]

Facebook 2.0
Tracy Mitrano
Tracy Mitrano is the Director of Information
Technology Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs at Cornell
University. Comments on this article can be sent to the author at tbm3@cornell.edu and/or can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page.
In March 2006, the Cornell University associate registrar called me
and [...]

Create
a Fan Page for your library and invite your patrons to become your fan.
Create
videos of your library or on library related topics and upload them to
your Facebook.
Promote
library services and programs via your status updates.
Write
notes about your library and your programs and services.
Import
the RSS [...]