[Web4lib] RE: [LITA-L:3133] Re: MySpace and academic libraries

[Bill Teschek]

Bill,

You got a nice, albeit brief, plug in John Iliff's blog here:

http://tinyurl.com/mq3v8

It's good reading for anyone interested in connecting libraries with MySpace or 
Facebook and the like.

Bill Teschek
bteschek at hampton.lib.nh.us

Drew, Bill wrote:

> I was interviewed by Scott Carlson of the Chronicle for some background
> material on MySpace and its use by academic libraries.  Congratulations
> to Brooklyn College.  We started our own MySpace and Facebook back in
> January.  I wish we could get the news coverage that Brooklyn College
> got.
> 
> Wilfred (Bill) Drew
> E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-lita-l at ala.org [mailto:owner-lita-l at ala.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Barbra Higginbotham
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:28 PM
> > To: Library and Information Technology Association List
> > Subject: [LITA-L:3133] Re: MySpace and academic libraries
> > 
> > If anyone wd like to know more about our project, pl contact 
> > Beth Evans 
> > bevans at brooklyn.cuny.edu .
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies at uillinois.edu>
> > To: "Library and Information Technology Association List" 
> > <lita-l at ala.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:58 PM
> > Subject: [LITA-L:3130] MySpace and academic libraries
> > 
> > 
> > Carlson, Scott. The Library at CUNY's Brooklyn College Makes 
> > Friends on
> > MySpace. Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 52, Issue 37, Page A33.
> > May 19, 2006.
> > 
> > "'Friends of the library' usually refers to people who donate books or
> > bags of cash to a venerable institution. But on MySpace, it means
> > something else entirely...the library of the City University of New
> > York's Brooklyn College has a page on MySpace"
> > 
> > Full text at (subscription required):
> > 
> > http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i37/37a03302.htm
> > 
> > Bernie Sloan
> > Senior Information Systems Consultant
> > Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
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> > Champaign, IL  61820-5752
> > 
> > Phone: (217) 333-4895
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> > E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
> > 
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