Comments on: library myspace account action

By: lola

lola — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:36:05 +0000

hi i do not have bannanas in my ear, it really is my sister that does. sorry about that whole bean burrito, it was a mixture of my friend and my story. luv ya lots bye

By: Lola 2

Lola 2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:56:27 +0000

Hello excuse my sister lola 1 she is a little bit off if you caught my drifft or something like that
my sister has bannanas in her ears love you buy

By: lola

lola — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:51:23 +0000

hello my little bean burrito!!! u remind me of cheese, and dinosours thank u for your service at the library, and u will always be in my thoughts. have a great summer

By: Librarians Matter » Blog Archive » No-one knows you are a dog…or a library…

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:20:05 +0000

[...] Recently there have been lots of discussion of libraries who set up their own MySpace account. For example, here, here, here and here. The recipe seems to be: “Go to where your users are (MySpace), get an account, add some information, and maybe a catalogue search box, get some friends and voila! an extra service point”. I wonder whether this is only an American trend, as I don’t know of any Australian libraries doing it…. although the Second Life Libraries have. [...]

By: shameka

shameka — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:13:46 +0000

i’LL LIKE TO GET ON MYPSPACE

By: tabbatha

tabbatha — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:53:07 +0000

its a thing for 18 year olds

By: Bill Drew

Bill Drew — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:45:49 +0000

How about talking about My Space and libraries?

By: Steven M. Cohen

Steven M. Cohen — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:11:02 +0000

Whoops. I read that post differently yesterday. Right you are, Aaron. I have to be more careful with my commentary

I also wonder if there would be a way to get celebrity endorsements of libraries into online communities, be it with read posters or otherwise.

Thoughts?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:41:59 +0000

@Jessamyn
I <3 you for your librarian presence on AskMe. Positively representing librarians (not only) online is one way we all can contribute to the profession. You’re right, contributing ourselves is the best we have for now. Better to do this than just gripe :]

@Steven M. Cohen
I didn’t claim that READ posters are a bad PR move. I just said that contributing to online communities would “reach a market that READ posters arenâ€™t [reaching]. Blimey! If you’re going to be a gadfly, read carefully.

@Steve L.
Great point, we need to get outside of the library! I too like seeing librarians contributing online, but I think that ALA could post interesting photos with commentary (PATRIOT Act, GLBT issues, cencorship) on flickr. Maintain awesome bookmarks on del.icio.us? Connect people to materials at 43 Things?

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:43:06 +0000

But, Steven, don’t they have to already be *in* the library to see the READ posters? I think the hope would be that a MySpace presence would get ‘em where they live, and compliment other PR efforts.

And, Aaron, I love seeing libraries and librarians on MySpace, Metafilter, Flickr, and whatnot; I’m not really sure what ALA as an organization would add in these spaces, though.

By: Steven M. Cohen

Steven M. Cohen — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:15:35 +0000

I disagree that the READ posters were a bad PR move. Why are they still around (and still selling like hotcakes) if they don’t do anything for the profession? I also think that librarians love them (compare it to the Nancy Pearl figure – same concept). It’s good for the profession to see celebrities as poster boys/girls for literacy and libraries. ALA is for librarians as well as for library users, not just for library users. Some tend to forget that.

An aside: Your text comes up really small in FireFox. Is anyone else seeing this?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:45:30 +0000

I like your ideas, though of course I want to keep clueless people away from AskMetafilter. I think part of the problem is the whoole cluetrain thing. People and organizations like ALA need to be confident enough that they can continue to keep the money rolling in even if they give stuff away for free (like newsletters without web bug and spammy ads, or buttons that really are promotional tools as well as a sales opportunity). It would be cool to see ALA organizational folks participating more *as humans* in the wider world of library fun online, but that would necessitate them having a different view of the work/life dichotomy than, say you or I. For now someone from the ALA *is* working on AskMetafilter, me, since it’s a memebr organization (and you, and I can think of a few more) but it may take a while before doing “stuff online” is seen as a legitimate way for librarians to do work. I don’t need to be convinced, and a lot of the younger wired librarians don’t, but for others it may be a while.