Adopting Social Media in an Academic Library:
Especially for Outreach and Accessibility Purposes
By: Philip Whitford
Articles & Reports:
Farkas, Meredith. “Going Where Patrons Are: Outreach in MySpace and Facebook.” American Libraries 38, no. 4 (April 2007): 27. Accessed Online From Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts.
Pew Internet & American Life Project. “Social Networking Sites and Our Lives.” Pew Research Center. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Technology-and-social-networks.aspx (Accessed August 3, 2011).
Wellman, Barry et al. “The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 8, no. 3 (April 2003), under “Netville,” http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue3/wellman.html (Accessed August 2, 2011).
Sachs, Dianna E. et al., “Striking a Balance: Effective Use of Facebook in an Academic Library.” Internet Reference Services Quarterly 16, no. 1-2 (June 2011): 35-54. Accessed Online From Taylor & Francis Online.
Schrier, Robert A. “Digital Librarianship & Social Media: The Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator.” D-Lib Magazine 17, no. 7-8 (July 2011). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july11/schrier/07schrier.print.html (Accessed August 3, 2011).
Resources For Creating a Social Media Policy:
Kooy, Brian K. and Sarah K. Steiner. "Protection, Not Barriers: Using Social Software Policies to Guide and Safeguard Students and Employees." Reference & User Services Quarterly 50, no. 1 (Fall 2010): 59-71. Accessed Online From Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts.
Social Networking Sites (SNS):
Tools:
Google+:
Blogs To Follow:
David Lee King - David Lee King
iLibrarian - Ellyssa Kroski
Information Wants To Be Free - Meredith Farkas
Librarian In Black - Sarah Houghton-Jan
Tame The Web - Michael Stephens
The Ubiquitous Librarian - Brian Mathews
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Nice resources. Thanks :)
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