[Web4lib] Facebook

[B.G. Sloan]

John Fereira said: "I think that the more important question here is whether students want to use Facebook to interact with libraries."

For what it's worth, early last year the University of Michigan posted the results of a survey of students' web use and the library.

One of the questions on the survey was: "If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for help with your research, would you?"

Only 17% of the respondents answered "yes". An additional 6% said "maybe". The remainder (77%) said "no", for a variety of reasons. See page 13 at:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/files/services/usability/WebSurvey_Fall2007.pdf 

Of course this is just one survey, and it was conducted almost two years ago, but it's an interesting perspective.

Bernie Sloan

--- On Thu, 9/10/09, John Fereira <jaf30 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> From: John Fereira <jaf30 at cornell.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Facebook
> To: "Christine Zeitler" <christine.zeitler at gmail.com>
> Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6:42 AM
> Christine Zeitler wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> 
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