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Libraries, Librarians & Social Networking. Alison Miller @millerlibrarian. Social Networking. Individuals, organizations, businesses and others Social sites used to connect with others, sharing interests, causes, services, etc. Leads to Social Capital
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Libraries, Librarians & Social Networking Alison Miller @millerlibrarian
Social Networking Individuals, organizations, businesses and others Social sites used to connect with others, sharing interests, causes, services, etc. Leads to Social Capital • connections within and between social networks
A few examples Social networks
Facebook more than 400 million active users 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day average user has 130 friends people spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Twitter twitter now has more than105 million registered users new users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/twitter-user-statistics-r_n_537992.html
YouTube more than 2 billion views a day 24 hours of video uploaded every minute the average person spends at least 15 minutes a day on YouTube more video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years http://www.viralblog.com/research/youtube-statistics/
Flickr over 5.5 billion images more than 80% are public http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr
So…why is this important? the average American now spends about 13 hours each week surfing the Web there is value to social networking! http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/consumer&id=7186413
Libraries & Social Networking Academic, Public, School, and Special libraries Lib Success Wiki
Value In general… • social contacts affect the productivity of individuals and groups Specific populations… • a way to provide information and services to members where they live • additional access points to the library
Goals for libraries promote services promote collections promote events promote resources facilitate communication
Facebook Hennepin County Library http://www.facebook.com/hclib
Facebook applications for libraries legitimate research portals, combining a marketing tool with a research tool • My Delicious and Delicious Box add Delicious links to a Facebook page • Libguides is an official Libguides application which freely adds a library's Libguides to their Facebook page. • JSTOR app allows patrons to search your library's JSTOR account directly though Facebook. • a Widgetbox to allow users to search the OPAC through Facebook http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Social_Networking_Software#Facebook
Twitter Binghamton University Libraries http://twitter.com/bulibraries
YouTube The Library Channel – The Library Minute Arizona State University http://www.youtube.com/user/librarychannel
Flickr DeKalb County Public Library's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcpl/
Librarians & Social Networking New, veteran, retired, reference, technology, etc. Librarians and the Internet, Social Media, and Web 2.0
Value In general… • social contacts affect the productivity of individuals and groups Individual librarians… • share information and services with colleagues and peers • form relationships and create personal learning networks
Goals for librarians share service ideas and models share professional and library resources facilitate collaboration
Facebook Buffy Hamilton aka The Unquiet Librarian
Twitter Joe Murphy – Yale Librarian @Libraryfuture
YouTube Stephen Franceur Blog:Digital Reference
Flickr Jessamyn West Blog: librarian.net http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/
What can you do? learn a new tool’s culture PLAY with it. Experience it. Use it. connect to some Facebook apps, join some Facebook groups create a Twitter account and connect with librarians add some favorites to YouTube browse – see who’s using Flickr and what images they are uploading
Then… figure out what you can add that those people (your library members, after all) might find interesting or useful http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/09/11/facebook-and-libraries/
Finally…Have fun! Librarians Do Gaga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_uzUh1VT98