Using Social Media in Libraries: Best Practices (Best Practices in Library Services)

ISBN 10: 0810887541 / ISBN 13: 9780810887541

Published by Scarecrow Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Using Social Media in Libraries: Best Practices (Best Practices in Library Services)
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810887541
• ISBN 13: 9780810887541
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles Harmon is an Executive Editor for the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. His background includes work in special, public, and school libraries.

Michael Messina is a reference librarian at the State University of New York’s Maritime College. He has also worked as a researcher at The Brooklyn Academy of Music Archives. The former publisher of Applause Theatre & Cinema Books/Limelight Editions, he is a coeditor of Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays (Northwestern University Press).