Social Media For Creative Libraries

By (author) Phil Bradley; By (author) Bradley Phil
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This book takes a practical look at the activities that librarians undertake to see how they can be better achieved – more quickly, more efficiently and with more impact – using social media tools.
Description

Social Media for Creative Libraries explains how librarians and information professionals can use online tools to communicate more effectively, teach people different skills and to market and promote their service faster, cheaper and more effectively.
Based on his acclaimed work How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library, Phil Bradley has restructured and comprehensively updated this new book to focus on the activities that information professionals carry out on a daily basis, before then analysing and explaining how online tools can assist them in those activities. Including:

• a discussion of authority checking and why information professionals are needed more than ever in a social media world
• a guide to creating great presentations online
• how online tools can make teaching and training sessions easier and more enjoyable for information professionals
• useful tips for implementing new strategies in libraries and a discussion of the practicalities of library marketing and promotion
• how to create a good social media policy and why
• a look at a few social media disasters and how they could have been avoided

Readership: Packed with features and accompanied by introductory videos on the Facet Publishing YouTube channel, Social Media for Creative Libraries is essential reading for all library and information professionals.

Table of contents

1. An introduction to social media

• So what is ‘social media’?
• Complexity and simplicity
• Cloud-based versus computer-based
• Browser-based or installed software
• Solitary or crowd-based
• Communication
• Where is data now?
• Validating content
• Control through the website, or dispersed
• Web/internet/social search
• Information tracked down, or brought to us
• Getting it right or getting it quickly
• Connection speeds and storage costs
• Our roles
• Web 1.0 was about limitations, social media is about freedom
• Summary

2. Authority checking

• Introduction
• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Google properties
• Blogs
• Other ways to check authority
• Summary
• URLs mentioned in this chapter

3. Guiding tools

• Introduction
• Home or start pages
• Pearltrees
• Google customized search engines
• Bookmarking packages
• Blending bookmarks into a social media strategy
• Summary
• URLs mentioned in this chapter

4. Current awareness and selective dissemination of information resources

• Introduction
• Let the networks take the strain!
• Tablet-based applications
• Web-based curation tools
• News curation by e-mail
• Summary
• URLs mentioned in this chapter

5. Presentation tools

• Introduction
• Additions to PowerPoint
• Prezi
• Interactive presentations
• Timeline packages
• Easy-to-create presentations
• Animated presentations
• Summary
• URLs mentioned in this chapter

6. Teaching and training

• Introduction
• Screencasting
• Screencapture
• Interactive training: Google+ Hangouts
• Interactive training: other resources
• MOOCs
• Advantages and disadvantages of e- learning
• URLs mentioned in this chapter

7. Communication

• Introduction
• ‘Just the facts’
• Twitter
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