Using Social Media in Libraries

Download or read book Using Social Media in Libraries written by Charles Harmon and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.