[Web4lib] Facebook

[Chester D. Mealer]

Your students/customers/patrons are already on Facebook. The advantage is you're not asking them to add something else to their routine. It might be somewhat different working for an Academic Library since your primary function will be research, but for public libraries it's definitely better to be where the public is rather than hope the public comes to us.

Chester Mealer
Webmaster & Systems Trainer
Rapides Parish library
chester at rpl.org

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Michael
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:43 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Facebook

What are the advantages of Facebook over Web pages on the library Web
site? I'm afraid I really don't understand. I just don't see anything
special there. I'm really asking, not trolling.


Michael Mitchell
Technical Services Librarian
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX
michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu


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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Leo Robert Klein
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:22 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Facebook

John Fereira wrote:
> Christine Zeitler wrote:
>> One of the academic libraries at which I work is attempting to decide
if
>> they want to use Facebook to interact with the students.
>
> I think that the more important question here is whether students want

> to use Facebook to interact with libraries.

Good point but increasingly it seems as if Facebook is more an entry
point for various types of communication, including friends of course,
but also professional and personal interests.

I mean, just looking at my own list, I've got the Chicago Historical
Society, a couple of my old schools and something called 'Static FBML'
whose meaning I honestly can't remember.

Assuming a similar collection (adjusted for age) on the part of our
users and I don't think it's too exotic if the library starts banging on

their Facebook door as well.

LEO

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