Social Media and the Library

Joseph Kraus Science & Engineering Librarian

Penrose Library 4/29/11

CC http://www.flickr.com/photos/z6p6tist6/500048151/

Personal Use of Social Media

• To connect with other librarians…

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Personal Use of Social Media

• Twitter (@jokrausdu) and FriendFeed. • Use #hashtags to mark a subject, for example.

Good for conference discussion. • Blogs, such as:

– http://www.sciencelibrary.org/ – http://www.nuthingbut.net/ – http://lis4375.wordpress.com/ – http://collaborativelibrarianship.wordpress.com/ – Others…

• Delicious (jokrausdu)

Social Media for the Library

• Blogs such as: – http://library.du.edu/penrosepen/

– http://library.du.edu/goodanswers/

– http://library.du.edu/dupedia/

• Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr

How do I manage some of them?

• Hootsuite. Five accounts (One personal, one for Penrose, and three organizational.)

• http://twitterfeed.com/ to feed in blog posts to twitter.

• Only one blog feed is allowed to go into Facebook; we do the Penrose Pen.

• Most are team-based blogs.

Browser buttons

• Bookmark a page on my delicious account

• Shorten a URL with bit.ly

• Login to WordPress

• Save something to sciencelibrary.org

Images?

Do an advanced search in Flickr and limit to Creative Commons licensed images.

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/30976576@N07/4113330094/in/photostream

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahw/2607891945/sizes/z/in/pool-780301@N20/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/z6p6tist6/500048151/

Thanks!

• Let me know if you have any questions.

• Joseph.kraus@du.edu