Social networking

From LIS 415 - Candy's Section

Libraries that do interesting things in virtual places where users congregate. Lots of libraries now have content on Facebook, LibraryThing, MySpace, flickr, del.icio.us, and YouTube, so only a sampling of these has been included, with an emphasis on the national or local (Boston area) or unusual.

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This is a flickr photo group that pools pictures of libraries, library groups and librarians. This group was started to have a list of all the libraries with flickr pages. Some examples of the 904 members are ALA, Colorado College and Decatur Library. One of the posts in the group discussion pool is an informal list of all the libraries that are on flickr. Pictures are of library art exhibits, conferences, staff and interesting collections.--Brownw 13:39, 1 October 2006 (EDT)
Libraries with a presence in Second Life. --Schwartz 16:21, 8 June 2008 (EDT)
This is a list of libraries using microblogging tools (Twitter being the best known) for reference, blogging, promotion, etc. --Harde 11:45, 7 April 2008 (EDT)
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ALA has a myspace page and a facebook page, including upcoming events, pictures, and videos. --Walsh16 14:39, 7 May 2008 (EDT)
BPL has an account on Flickr that they are using to post digitized items that will eventualy be found in a digital library. Their collection includes New England photographs, Boston Brewery prints, war posters, Tichnor Brother postcards, and Sarah Wyman Whitman bindings. --Gagnon6 14:19, 6 April 2008 (EDT)
The UK's national library, the BL has a Facebook page which includes videos, pictures, and event advertisements. --Chapin2 10:23, 22 March 2008 (EDT)
Buena Park Library has a book club on Library Thing and a Local Interest Tags sections which consisted of terms such as archives and historical societies. --Miller17 22:07, 3 December 2007 (EST)
At a recent interview with the Cambridge Public Library director, the director told me about the library's YouTube outreach. Cambridge high school students and staff worked together to create three videos - "Get What You Want," "Get What You Need," "Save What You Have" - promoting the library. --Admonius 11:33, 9 December 2007 (EST)
This public library has started a pilot project in partnership with the Alliance Library System to explore the creation of teen library servies in Teen Second Life. Teen Second life is a subset of Second Life where the teen world is separate from the adult world and is only accessible to those ages 13-17. --Gabriele 17:17, 7 February 2007 (EST)
The OPAC incorporates YouTube videos and make them viewable within the online catalog, with full MARC records. --Harde 22:00, 6 April 2008 (EDT)
The Darien Library is using their flickr page as a marketing and outreach tool. They have a set called "Why we need a new library" with photos of books on the floor. There are images of the trustees, fundraising campaigns, staff and bowling!. --Brownw 11:51, 16 November 2006 (EST)
This is a neat little social networking-related site I happened upon. This library has a MySpace page, which is forward-thinking in itself, but when I checked their official website, this easily overshadowed anything else. Bookspace is a service that the Hennepin County Library provides, for patrons to log in and share lists of their favorite books online. It also contains social networking tools for book clubs and other reader-related topics. I find it an interesting, user-driven twist on the old concept of readers' advisory. --Engel4 00:33, 30 July 2007 (EDT)
The Inner Temple Library is one of four law libraries in the U.K. that have existed since the 1500s. Their offical facebook page has a lot of useful information, such as links to a map, hours of operation, library history, a bookshelf with recently added books, and an RSS feed of current issues in U.K. Law. It is, however, difficult to find the facebook page from the library's website, http://www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk/, as if they are far too dignified to actually have a facebook page. --Howell2 12:27, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
The Web for Teens--What to Read List is the Minneapolis Public Library's answer to social networking. They provide a page where teens can make their "own list of favorite reads...and share it here." It's fun to read what the teens are into reading (Manga rules!), but it's even more interesting to see how they've really taken over the page. While many teens do use the page to present and discuss the books they love, many also enter other "pertinent information" (such as their age and appearance) and some don't even bother to mention books at all! --Mains 22:58, 29 July 2007 (EDT)
The Pima County Public Library in Tucson, Arizona, has created a series of nine short videos that have been placed on YouTube. They are the result of a yearly program called Summer Video Shootout, in which teens get to write, direct, edit,and produce a short film on a favorite book or a library related topic. --Kresmer 21:15, 31 March 2008 (EST) Kresmer
On the main page of the Reading Public Library's website is a series of four photographs that change every time the page is refreshed. Clicking on the photographs takes you to the Reading Public Library's Flickr photostream. --Scott6 16:04, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
The Tampa Bay Library Consortium created a Facebook application called "Ask a Librarian" to enable Florida users to consult librarians from all over Florida with their questions. They also display that this template application can be custom-made for each library, and to contact the creator to get one! --Gallant3 09:33, 2 May 2008 (EDT)
This library incorporates the instant messanger, Meebo, into the library OPAC. --Gaunt 3:23 8 May 2008 (EDT)
Williams College uses YouTube Videos as a way of encouraging people to use the library for their research papers rather then go on the Internet for secondary sources where there is lack of information.--Pacilli 21:33, 13 December 2007 (EST)
The Yale University Library system recently developed this Facebook profile which contains news, blogs, image galleries, and the must-see Room 26: Cabinet of Curiosities blog. --Falkowsk 21:26, 8 September 2008 (EDT)
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