Social Networking in Libraries

If you are on twitter then there are many librarians you can follow, however in honor of follow friday, here are my top ten picks. By the way and this is really the subject of another post there are quite a few library related vendors and job suppliers on twitter as well.
@janettefuller
@conniecrosby
@jessamyn
@shaunjamison
@roy300m
@heyjudeonline
@akearns
@suzjackson
@buffyjhamilton
@annalaurabrown (I’m know, [...]

The Library Journal had an article this month on Twitter and Friend Feed. It focuses all about how to combine these two tools to market your library. It had several ideas many of which had never occurred. to me. I thought I would share it here as it sure peeked my interest.

I attended the Utah Library Association Conference Last Thursday and Friday and one of the presentations I attended had some librarians from the University of Utah talking about how libraries can use social media to expose the public to their unique content. Here are some things they did that any library can do albeit possibly [...]

Does your library use Twitter? This article presents some interesting and useful facts, tools and tips about if you want to try it in your library. The administration at my college has decided to block it and I have found that many of my students don’t even know what it is but if [...]

Have you considered using twitter to communicate with your library staff or patrons? A recent article in the school library journal talks all about using twitter for micro blogging with your library. Twitter has become very popular recently with all kinds of users. What about sending a tweet to your patrons who have overdue books? [...]

Watch this video on blogs and twitter for librarians.