Morrison+S401

I am a first year SLIS student. I use Facebook a little in my personal life but I see how it and other social media will become a vital part of the library profession and others. I am excited to be entering librarianship at a time when technology is becoming so integrated in library and information science. I think that libraries will continue to expand their marketing through social media, especially now when libraries can't afford to put monetary resources toward marketing, but have to continuously prove their value to the public in order to continue functioning. In this way, I think that libraries will use Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds, as well as website development to advertise their services. I also think that libraries should and will use podcasts and blogs to reach out to the public. It is a very exciting time to be entering the library field!

Here are a few sites that I have found that use social media and contain library related content. I receive RSS Feeds from them and enjoy reading them:

1) The Swiss Army Librarian [] - A blog written by a Reference Librarian and his experiences and what he's doing (right now he's working on creating a mobile website for a library. Interesting and fun to read

2) The Unquiet Librarian [|The Unquiet Librarian]- A High School Media Specialist muses about all things school library related. She is starting a kindle project for her school library, where they are available for checkout. I was wondering if this will be a common service that libraries (school and public) will begin in the future. It will be interesting to watch.

3) BookPage [|BookPage] - Book Reviews, Author interviews. Because I can't read everything (or very much for that matter!)

4) The Best of Publib [|Best of Publib] - Discussion of all issues related to public libraries

5) The Most Interesting Librarians in the World [|LisNews] A collaborative blog devoted to current events related to libraries and information science.

I like Google Reader and think I might change some of the information I get via e-mail to RSS feeds so that I can look at them all at once. But, I do have a hard time with the amount of information. I think I need to cut back on the news-I probably went wild when I signed up to get all of the information I could and it is just too much. But, I think Google Reader is easy to use and navigate.