Social Media Impact in Libraries

Facebook & Twitter Technology Tools

            Did you know that social media can help you promote your library?  Libraries are not just a place to hold books anymore, well I know ours at Henry Ford Elementary is more than that.  You can follow my new Facebook Library Page http://facebook.com/librarynardalugo or our Twitter Account at @nardalugo123.  These are just some awesome social media tools that we can use to promote our library, it just depends which one fits your needs. 

I was able to search several local libraries Facebook websites and they were pretty amazing with how they used this tool.  In Mission High School students and parents can view the many events that this library is having throughout the school year.  Way to go Mission High School Library Page!  https://www.facebook.com/MissionHighSchoolLibrary/#  This High School does a marvelous way in promoting the school events but, I just wished they would have also promoted literacy a little more in this website.   I was also able to see that even our School Library Journal has a Facebook Account that promotes everything that the journal has to offer for librarians.   https://www.facebook.com/SchoolLibraryJournal/#  Here in this site you can find samples of what the journal will publish in their upcoming journals, which can be very helpful for anyone. 

Besides, Facebook serving as a social networking tool there is also many microblogging sites that can also help us with the promotion of our libraries.  Twitter is one of those microblogging sites that truly offers many useful ideas for librarians.  One example of Twitter serving as a resource would be the tweet that I found from Kathy Schock @kathyschrock on May 5, 2017 she mentioned how much she liked the new addition of having @padlet include the option of stacking your contents in series of columns for better serving our needs.

 

I also found useful was from @GwynethJones whom is also known as “The Daring Librarian.”  She posts many valuable content for us librarians, but she retweets many things that we can benefit from.  For example in May 10, 2017 she retweeted a tweet from Alex Noudelman where it attached a “10 Tips for Digital Photo Editing & Fun” that I found extremely useful as well.  

            Even though, I’m only listing these few examples there is many other reasons of why we should promote our library with different social media outlets.  If you use these tools to promote your library your community will become well aware of how truly valuable your library really is.  “The benefits could be significant for both the students and schools” if social media is used properly Sage Knowledge Encyclopedia of Educational Technology mentions in their article “Social Media in Secondary School Settings.”
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