Monday 2 August 2010

In your facebook

I have had a facebook account for a number of years - did nothing with it, then had a frantic 6 months on it regularly, then lapsed again.  As with a lot of the web tools I find that if you are not on it alot you get behind and then, in my case, you panic when you go back on and are faced with 76 messages.

But having said that last year we did create a library facebook page:


This started as a way to update our users on the building work in the Faculty affecting the library.  It was a quick way to get out information when we had to suddenly close the library or if it was particularly noisy on one day or when there was no heating in November!  Unlike the web page or the email lists (which lots of students don't read but which we used as well) we could get the information out quickly. We could also reach our regular visitors (not on the email lists) so that if they were planning to visit they would know if we were going to be closed.

It worked well.  Since then we have kept the page and used it to advertise when new journals are in and we are going to extend this to books.  We don't have alot of followers in relation to members of the library (139 fans - 400 members) and many are former members. 

I would not rely on it as the only means of communicating with our users but it is a fairly quick way to send updates and a good additional method that suits some people.

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