Libraries use the biggest book of all, Facebook!

With Facebook being one of the most popular social media sites in the world, many libraries are getting in on the action, creating a page and using the site for many different reasons.

Some of these reasons include:

• Using their Facebook page to let users know about events. A library service that makes great use of this is the Melbourne Library Service.
• Posting reviews about books
• Sharing links, videos and other information from outside sources, like the National Library of Australia
• Linking their other social networking sites such as Pinterest, as seen on The Library of Congress Facebook page.
• Connecting to large groups of people, specifically adults because of the Facebook 13+ age restrictions, like ALIA National Library Technicians Facebook group.
• Libraries also use Facebook to gather and record feedback and comments from their library users.

Follow, follow, follow

Today is library blog following day!

There's some exciting reading ahead!

I've managed to stumble across a website called Libraries Interact which actually has a nice list of both personal and corporate Australian library blogs.


Here is a little list of some blogs I found on Libraries Interact that I think are quite interesting:

Feral Library Tales - although this blog has not been updated since 2013, it has some interesting tales about working in the library industry.

BookBuster - this blog talks about various issues within and relating to the library industry and their personal views on the situation.

The Hills Shire Library Online Book Club - a nice blog run by the Hills Shire Library. They run this as an online book club where they pick a certain theme each month for participants who can then choose their own book.

Teenagers Reading? - this blogger talks about the different books they're reading, concentrating mainly on teenage literature.

Skerricks - ideas and inspiration for improving school library environments.


I'm sure I'll find many more to follow in the future, but for now, these ones will keep me quite occupied.