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Librarians Socially Networking
Librarians are increasingly using social networking for professional purposes. They use tools like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and wikis to connect with other librarians, stay up to date on new ideas, and discuss challenges and solutions. While only a small percentage of users actively contribute online, their comments influence many others. Librarians are embracing social media because patrons are using it and it allows them to focus on the changing role of libraries.
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- 1. Social Networking InLibraries: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! Melissa Kiser Information Technology Librarian, Allen County Public Library (260) 421-1292 [email_address] November 20, 2008
- 2. A little aboutme. Melissa Kiser Technology Librarian, Allen County Public Library Began working in libraries in 1982 as a shelver MSLS from University of Kentucky, 1987 Children’s librarian 1988-1995 Branch manager 1995-2008 IT librarian February 2008-present
- 3. Librarians Socially NetworkingWHY? HOW? WHAT’S THE POINT?
- 4. Why are librariansdoing it?
- 5. To know otherlibrarians
- 6. To see whatlibrarians are doing in other libraries http://www.elkhart.lib.in.us/cgi-bin/index5.pl?&video=rogue_librarians&file=flash_player2d.pl
- 7. To see whatother librarians are thinking about (steal this idea)
- 8. To bounce ideasoff other librarians
- 9. To not bealone in the world
- 10. To get otherlibrarians’ expertise on something new at my library
- 11. To get otherlibrarians’ expertise on something new at my library
- 12. It’s cheaper thanairfare!
- 13. It’s cheaper thanairfare (and far less frustrating)!
- 14. How are librariansusing it?
- 15. Twittering back andforth
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- 17. Friendfeeding other librarians’stuff to ourselves
- 18. Reading and commentingon librarians’ blogs
- 19. Highlighting others’ postson your blog (Hey everyone, did you read this?)
- 20. Real yet virtualsocieties (Library Society of the World) http://thelsw.org/
- 21. Chat rooms: totalk shop and unwind
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- 24. Friending each otheron social networking sites
- 25. Friending each otheron social networking sites
- 26. Friending each otheron social networks
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- 29. Our patrons aredoing it
- 30. Our patrons aredoing it
- 31. Everyone else isdoing it
- 32. Everyone else isdoing it
- 33. Everyone else isdoing it
- 34. Everyone else isdoing it
- 35. Everyone else isdoing it
- 36. Everyone else isdoing it
- 37. Everyone else isdoing it
- 38. Everyone else isdoing it
- 39. Everyone else isdoing it
- 40. Everyone else isdoing it
- 41. Librarians are focusingon what libraries are becoming, not what they’ve always been
- 42. “ Online Communitiesand Their Impact on Business: Ignore at Your Own Peril” http://rubiconconsulting.com/downloads/whitepapers/Rubicon-web-community.pdf About 80% of user-generated content on the web, including comments and questions, is created by less than 10% of the users . Despite the low number, online communities have enormous influence on almost all web users. Online comments and reviews posted by the enthusiasts are second only to word of mouth as a purchase driver for all web users.
- 43. “ Online Communitiesand Their Impact on Business: Ignore at Your Own Peril” http://rubiconconsulting.com/downloads/whitepapers/Rubicon-web-community.pdf Web discussion is theatre: it is a great way to interact with customers, because average customers watch and listen . Even though you can’t get most of your customers to interact with you online, they watch what you do with the most frequent contributors, and they judge you based on it .
- 44. “ Online Communitiesand Their Impact on Business: Ignore at Your Own Peril” http://rubiconconsulting.com/downloads/whitepapers/Rubicon-web-community.pdf Half of all of the most frequent contributors are age 21 or younger. If it sometimes feels like people online behave like children, that may be because many of the noise ones are .
- 45. Remember how itfelt to say, “We no longer need books like this on our shelves” ?
- 46. Look how farwe’ve come