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Tumblr? I Barely Know Her. Using Tumblr in Your Library Presenters: Emily Vater and Jake Moore Boone County Public Library. What is . Short form blog ( tumblelog ) for posting multi-media content S ocial networking platform meets microblogging Relies heavily on pop culture Home of the GIF
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Tumblr? I Barely Know Her Using Tumblr in Your Library Presenters: Emily Vater and Jake Moore Boone County Public Library
What is • Short form blog (tumblelog) for posting multi-media content • Social networking platform meets microblogging • Relies heavily on pop culture • Home of the GIF • Provides easy readability through the use of images, video, and short text
History of • Official Launch: February 2007 • Created by David Karp and Marco Arment • Bought in 2013 by Yahoo! • Karp still retains CEO title
Who is Reaching? Some Very Important Stats How Big is tumblr?
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What is a GIF? Graphics Interchange Format Acompressed image file format Based on indexed colors, which is a palette of at most 256 colors, which helps to greatly reduce file size Compressed image files can be quickly transmitted over a network or the Internet GIF files are great for small icons and animated images, but they lack the color range to be used for high-quality photos. Basically, they’re animated images that are not on the same level of animation
The Importance of Tagging “The Dewey Decimal System is to a library what tags are to Tumblr” via thedailydot.com Vital to generating views/likes/reposts Possible Library tags: #library #bcpl #boonelibrary #teen
Questions? Emily Vater Reference Associate Main Library Boone County Public Library evater@bcpl.org Jake Moore Youth Services Librarian Florence Branch Boone County Public Library jmoore@bcpl.org More BPCL Tumblarians: • Pamela Jayne, Youth Services Associate, Main Library – pjayne@bcpl.org • Kaitlin Barber, Local History Associate, Main Library – kbarber@bcpl.org