Using Social Media in Libraries (eBook, ePUB)

Best Practices
Redaktion: Harmon, Charles; Messina, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since there's no point in Twittering if no one acts on your tweets and there's no point in having a Facebook page with a million "likes" if library use doesn't increase, you'll welcome the eight best practices presented here because they will help your library both actually do social media in a way that matters and do it well.

The successful strategies presented here range from the Vancouver Public Library's innovative use of Twitter to the United Nations Library's adoption of a social media policy to the Farmington, Connecticut Public Library's fantastic work using social media to reach teens who weren't using the library. Other libraries highlight their ventures into media including blogs, Pinterest, and social catalogs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780810887558
• Artikelnr.: 38241110

Autorenporträt

Edited by Charles Harmon and Michael Messina

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Laura Solomon, Ohio Public Library Information Network
Introduction by Walt Crawford, Author of Successful Social Networking in Public Libraries
"The Library in the Social Network: Twitter at the Vancouver Public Library" by Kay Cahill, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada
"Beyond the Teen Space: Reaching Teens through Social Media" by Laura Horn, Farmington Public Libraries, Farmington, Connecticut
"Blogging for Readers" by Robin Hastings, Missouri River Regional Library, Jefferson City, Missouri
"Successful Blogging Strategy & Design" by Jason Paul Michel, Miami University Libraries, Oxford, Ohio
"Navigating the Virtual Horizon: Finding Our Way Using Social Media in Hospital Libraries" by Yongtao Lin and Kathryn M.E. Ranjit, Tom Baker Cancer Knowledge Centre, University of Calgary Libraries, Calgary, Canada
"Visualizing Information with Pinterest" by Cynthia Dudenhoffer, Smiley Library, Central Methodist University, Fayette, Missouri
"The United Nations Library is Seriously Social" by Angelinah C. Boniface, Dag Hammarskjöld Library, The United Nations, New York
"Social Catalogs: Implementing an Online Social Community as an Extension to Our Physical Libraries" by Laurel Tarulli, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia