[Web4lib] Facebook

[jimm wetherbee]

Mikael Jacobsen wrote:
> Have you considered making a search widget of your OPAC and/or databases available to your students? They could add it to their Facebook profiles and be able to search your resources from their online home.  I have heard of some libraries (who slips the mind at the moment) have done this before.

We've done this with a Facebook Tab (also have RSS feeds going into
Facebook).  You can search for Ethel K. Smith Library.

--jimm
>
> Just an idea.  
>
> Mikael "Mick" Jacobsen
> Adult Services Librarian
> Skokie Public Library, IL
> http://www.skokielibrary.info
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> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Mitchell, Michael
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:21 AM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Facebook
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> Thanks for your answers. I feel a bit more enlightened now though not necessarily convinced. I keep trying to believe in Library 2.0, or even small parts of it, but I'm just not being very successful in convincing myself of the utility of most of it. 
> 	For example, we can stay in their face with Facebook, I see that now, but I just don't see that we (Brazosport College Library) have that much to put in their faces. There is a time and place for everything. We can let them add social tags to books and other items but I don't see imprecise descriptions helping anyone much. Blogging is so over-rated and becoming quite passé. They're everywhere but look how many blogs haven't been updated in months. Aren't they sad looking? Our reference librarian is participating in a national reference service that invites texted questions. I think he said he's gotten about six questions so far in a month or so. But it's new so maybe word just needs to spread. 
> 	I'll keep lurking and thinking here.
>
>
> Michael Mitchell
> Technical Services Librarian
> Brazosport College
> Lake Jackson, TX
> michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu 
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> -----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
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> 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.
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>
> Michael Mitchell
> Technical Services Librarian
> Brazosport College
> Lake Jackson, TX
> michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [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
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> John Fereira wrote:
>   
>> Christine Zeitler wrote:
>>     
>>> One of the academic libraries at which I work is attempting to decide
>>>       
> if
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>>> they want to use Facebook to interact with the students.  
>>>       
>> I think that the more important question here is whether students want
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>
>   
>> to use Facebook to interact with libraries.
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> 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.
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> LEO
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