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

Drew, Bill drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU
Thu May 18 09:05:45 EDT 2006


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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lita-l at ala.org [mailto:owner-lita-l at ala.org] On 
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> If anyone wd like to know more about our project, pl contact 
> Beth Evans 
> bevans at brooklyn.cuny.edu .
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies at uillinois.edu>
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> 
> 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):
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> http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i37/37a03302.htm
> 
> Bernie Sloan
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