With millions of daily users, I believe social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr provide an ideal outlet to engage a broad spectrum of society and maximise the libraries’ exposure, allowing them to promote services, collections, events, resources and easily facilitate communication with the client base. These networks also function as platforms for sharing media, with specific applications in library services such as Flickr photostreams of historical photographs forming part of the Local Studies Collections, and Facebook applications such as JSTOR allowing patrons to search the library’s JSTOR account directly through Facebook. By integrating these services into social networking, the library is able to maintain an active presence in the community. This is especially useful because many members of the community that may otherwise not be able to sacrifice the time to physically visit a library are able to remain informed and involved with current events and news.
Friday, 16 November 2012
Exercise 16
I have made a comment on Gary's blog, on Investigative Exercise 5 Social Networking:
With millions of daily users, I believe social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr provide an ideal outlet to engage a broad spectrum of society and maximise the libraries’ exposure, allowing them to promote services, collections, events, resources and easily facilitate communication with the client base. These networks also function as platforms for sharing media, with specific applications in library services such as Flickr photostreams of historical photographs forming part of the Local Studies Collections, and Facebook applications such as JSTOR allowing patrons to search the library’s JSTOR account directly through Facebook. By integrating these services into social networking, the library is able to maintain an active presence in the community. This is especially useful because many members of the community that may otherwise not be able to sacrifice the time to physically visit a library are able to remain informed and involved with current events and news.
With millions of daily users, I believe social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr provide an ideal outlet to engage a broad spectrum of society and maximise the libraries’ exposure, allowing them to promote services, collections, events, resources and easily facilitate communication with the client base. These networks also function as platforms for sharing media, with specific applications in library services such as Flickr photostreams of historical photographs forming part of the Local Studies Collections, and Facebook applications such as JSTOR allowing patrons to search the library’s JSTOR account directly through Facebook. By integrating these services into social networking, the library is able to maintain an active presence in the community. This is especially useful because many members of the community that may otherwise not be able to sacrifice the time to physically visit a library are able to remain informed and involved with current events and news.
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