[Web4lib] Facebook

[Brian Gray]

If the library has time to set up Facebook, I do not think the 77% that the
survey below mentions is a bad thing that should discourage you. People must
still make a personal choice to "friend" you so you are not forcing anyone
to participate.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>