<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Walt Crawford" <<a href="mailto:waltcrawford@gmail.com">waltcrawford@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Jul 31, 2011 3:37 PM<br>Subject: [Publib] Does your library use Twitter or Facebook--or have you stopped using either?<br>
To: "PUBLIB" <<a href="mailto:publib@webjunction.org">publib@webjunction.org</a>>, "web4lib" <<a href="mailto:web4lib@webjunction.org">web4lib@webjunction.org</a>><br><br type="attribution">
Note: I'm posting this to two lists--PUBLIB and web4lib. Apologies for<br>
duplication--but I'd also love it if people would repost it to state<br>
public library lists, if such exist! The message has two parts: For<br>
those libraries that currently use Twitter, Facebook or both--and for<br>
those libraries, if any exist, that formerly used either or both and<br>
have stopped.<br>
<br>
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<br>
If your public library/library district currently uses Twitter,<br>
Facebook or both, I’d love to get some feedback to help me prepare a<br>
book on public library use of social networks, to be published by ALA<br>
Editions next. Please send responses to <a href="mailto:waltcrawford@gmail.com">waltcrawford@gmail.com</a>,<br>
ideally by September 14, 2011.<br>
Basic Information<br>
<br>
Library/district official name<br>
Service area population<br>
Your name, title and email address<br>
Whether you’re willing to have your comments used as direct quotations<br>
or only as background.<br>
Comments on Twitter or Facebook (or both—indicate which):<br>
<br>
Whatever you feel is worth saying about how your library uses the<br>
social network, how much time is spent preparing items and responding<br>
to items (if you do that), whether one person or many post, the<br>
feedback you’ve gotten from your patrons, whether it seems<br>
worthwhile—and whatever else you think is worth mentioning.<br>
Comments on the relationship between the two (if you use both):<br>
<br>
Do you use them for different purposes, or are Facebook statuses<br>
basically longer versions of tweets (or maybe the same)? Other<br>
comments on the differences and similarities as your library has used<br>
them?<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
I can’t guarantee your comments will be used—I’d expect that no more<br>
than 2,000-3,000 words of the book will be comments from these emails.<br>
I will list you in the acknowledgments (unless you ask me not to do<br>
so) and your comments will definitely help as I prepare the subjective<br>
portions of the book.<br>
<br>
I’ll look up your library’s home page and go to your Twitter and<br>
Facebook pages, to pick up basic numbers (followers, following,<br>
tweets, likes, visits) and five recent items from each service as<br>
examples of trends and practices—unless you’re in one of the six or<br>
eleven states for which I’m doing full sweeps, in which case I’d do<br>
that anyway.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Walt Crawford<br>
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If your public library/library district has used Facebook, Twitter or<br>
both, and has stopped using one or both, I’d love to get some<br>
feedback, to help me prepare a book on public libraries’ use of social<br>
networks, to be published by ALA Editions in 2012. Please send<br>
responses to <a href="mailto:waltcrawford@gmail.com">waltcrawford@gmail.com</a> by September 14, 2011.<br>
Basic Information<br>
<br>
Library/district official name<br>
State, province or country<br>
Service area population<br>
Your name, title and email address, if I need more info<br>
Whether you’re willing to be quoted directly.<br>
Comments on Twitter or Facebook (or both—indicate which):<br>
<br>
Why you stopped using the social network and any other comments you<br>
wish to make.<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
I can’t guarantee your comments will be used—in all, I’d guess no more<br>
than 2,000 to 3,000 words in the book will come from direct librarian<br>
feedback. But I will list you in the acknowledgments and your comments<br>
will definitely help as I prepare the subjective portions of the book.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Note: I’m not assuming that there are any “failure stories.” It won’t<br>
surprise me at all if I don’t get any responses to this “negative”<br>
query. On the other hand, while I can see the Facebook and Twitter<br>
accounts in the six or eleven states I’m studying in depth, I have no<br>
way of knowing about former accounts that have closed—unless people<br>
tell me.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Walt Crawford<br>
<br>
<br>
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