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June 9, 2008

Twitter Ideas for Libraries

The Web site College@Home has put together a nice list of ideas for libraries interested in using the instant-blogging service Twitter.

The list includes ways to keep in touch with colleagues and share reference information, as well as some Twitter-related guides from around the Web.

We’ve written in the past about ideas for using Twitter in the classroom or for security alerts. What are other innovative ways academic libraries are using instant-blogging services? —Catherine Rampell

Posted on Monday June 9, 2008 | Permalink |

Comments

  1. Our Library Outreach and Library Technology departments started using Twitter over a month ago.

    Library Outreach (Twitter: LibraryOutreach) is using it for, of all things, outreach. Events, tours, Library news and other interests are being posted too. The Library IT department (Twitter Library_tech) keeps patrons and staff notified of Library technology news, updates and issues- more specifically when certain network services are not available.

    Both the Library Outreach and Library IT have Twitter have either widgets or scrubbers on their Library webpage linking back to Twitter, and links from Twitter linking back to the Library.

    — Erin Germ    Jun 9, 04:23 PM    #

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