Monday, February 11, 2008

Social Networking of Libraries

Trying to wrap things up for the KRL2.0, I took a tour of Facebook and found it somewhat interesting. I’m not a big fan of MySpace or Facebook, but I realize that a lot of our young patrons use these sites extensively. The Teen Isle is constantly filled with young people checking their pages.
I think Meredith Farkas had some good opinions about social networking, like knowing the difference between “being where the patrons are” vs “being useful to the patrons where they are.” She said it was a good source to get feedback when you ask about things in a zone they’re comfortable to speak their mind in…and about all sorts of things. It shows that the library cares about what they think.
The library could do well to reach those patrons within their comfort zone as far as requesting (and finding) material, brainstorming ideas, creating online magazines, submitting art-work for community/library events, or offering critiques or reviews of books and movies they've seen recently. They probably have good ideas about how to change the library to make it a better place. Maybe they would have suggestions about what to do about our diminishing music CD collection.

1 comment:

krl2pt0 said...

you're almost there - just a little twitter, a site or 2 for students and get a bit Mossy on Sharepoint.

Hope to see you Thursday!

bc