July 6, 2011, 8:40 pm
By Brian Mathews
ALA in New Orleans was a blast. The city has a great vibe—glad I finally got to experience it. Despite the humidity, it made me miss the South.
I gave a talk for LLAMA about managing social media. The theme I built upon was “from pioneer to policy-maker” – which sums up my early work on the fringes experimenting with 2.0 tools, to where I am now as an admin overseeing the social media program. But I also envision this as an analogy for social media in general— as a profession, we’re past the “dabbling” stages and are moving into something more concrete.
While preparing I looked around for social media guidelines, policies, procedures, strategies, etc from others. I found a great article Protection, Not Barriers outlining the state of affairs of policies in academic libraries. The authors found that 82% of their survey respondents operated without a social media…
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May 10, 2011, 9:23 am
By Brian Mathews
Ah yes, social media. It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on this topic—a favorite one of regular readers. So what’s new? Well, I’m trying a different approach this upcoming fiscal year. The story goes like this…
A few librarians and myself oversee our social media presence, but honestly, it has not been a priority and minimal effort at best. The main reason is that there are simply too many other things going on—but a secondary reason might be our questions on impact and return on investment (in terms of effort.)
I decided to punt the rest of this year and to start fresh in the summer. Meanwhile, I noticed that the UCSB Recreational Center is very active, particularly with Facebook. They were extremely organized and consistently pushing out a variety of content. I dug into it and found that they hired a student to manage their social media– a digital outreach…
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May 30, 2006, 8:31 am
By Brian Mathews
In Post-Memorial Day recovery I submit the thoughts of a student. The post asks: What do you do with papers that other people wrote?
I decided to stay out this one, but fascinating to read — students chime in about bibliographic management systems. I am intrigued by the “what if you had something that was kind of iTunes-like, but for papers and slides and stuff, and you could sort and search and organize and have a central place to stash all of them?”
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