libraries, librarians & social networking
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Libraries, Librarians & Social NetworkingLibraries, Librarians & Social NetworkingAlison Miller
@millerlibrarian
Social NetworkingSocial 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 examplesA few examples
Social networks
FacebookFacebook
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
TwitterTwitter
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
YouTubeYouTube
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/
FlickrFlickr
over 5.5 billion images
more than 80% are public
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr
So…why is this important?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 NetworkingLibraries & Social Networking
Academic, Public, School, and Special libraries
Lib Success Wiki
ValueValue
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 librariesGoals for libraries
promote services
promote collections
promote events
promote resources
facilitate communication
FacebookFacebook
Hennepin County Library
http://www.facebook.com/hclib
Facebook applications for librariesFacebook 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
TwitterTwitter
Binghamton University Libraries
http://twitter.com/bulibraries
YouTubeYouTube
The Library Channel – The Library Minute
Arizona State University
http://www.youtube.com/user/librarychannel
FlickrFlickr
DeKalb County Public Library's photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcpl/
Librarians & Social NetworkingLibrarians & Social Networking
New, veteran, retired, reference,
technology, etc.
Librarians and the Internet, Social Media, and Web 2.0
ValueValue
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 librariansGoals for librarians
share service ideas and models
share professional and library resources
facilitate collaboration
FacebookFacebook
Buffy Hamilton
aka The Unquiet Librarian
TwitterTwitter
Joe Murphy – Yale Librarian
@Libraryfuture
YouTubeYouTube
Stephen Franceur
Blog:Digital Reference
FlickrFlickr
Jessamyn West
Blog: librarian.net
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/
What can you do?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…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!Finally…Have fun!
Librarians Do Gaga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_uzUh1VT98