Geer+S401

My name is Sarah Geer and I am the Head of Circulation at the South Haven Public Library in the Porter County Public Library System. I absolutely LOVE my job! We use social media a lot at the library. We use facebook and twitter to get information out to our patrons about upcoming programs and new materials. The staff uses wiki to stay updated on policy information, make announcements, post procedures, ask questions, request items from admin, and a number of other things. Our system consists of 5 buildings in 4 different towns and about 99 employees so wiki is a very useful tool for all of us to stay connected and up to date on policy and procedures. Our reference department uses delicious to bookmark useful websites. Social media tools are incredibly useful in a library setting.

I have tagged links to websites we use all the time at the library. [] My RSS feed choices:

The Annoyed Librarian [] This blog posts about the direction libraries are going. It has articles on the future of libraries and problems we may come across.

Nancy Pearl [|www.nancypearl.com] This is a popular blog for librarians. She posts book reviews, great for readers advisory.

Awful Library Books [|www.awfullibrarybooks.net] This blog is very entertaining (we deserve to be entertained, right? Keeps morale up.) We read this at work. Believe it or not, it actually helps with weeding. We check our catalog to see if we have any of these gems, we have found one or two, (should I admit that?)

[|www.librarian.net] Interesting topics on various subjects that are relevant to libraries and librarians.

[] Keeps you up to date on the ever changing topic of the digital library.