Overview
Using Social Media to Build Library Communities: A LITA Guide is a community-building action manual for practitioners across the profession. By bringing together an array of perspectives to explore community building through social media, this book serves as the go-to resource for professionals who want to take social media beyond marketing and promotion to build an inclusive and engaged community of library users. Each chapter contains clear explanations of important topics for building communities through social media, and readers will come away with cohesive approaches for their own libraries. Using Social Media to Build Library Communities demonstrates that an energetic and committed community exists to help and guide fellow community builders.
Full Product Details
Author: Scott W.H. Young ,
Doralyn Rossmann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781442270503
ISBN 10: 1442270500
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 06 September 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Advancing the development of community is a core mission for libraries of all types. Communities of practice support growth and development for library workers. Social media promises assistance in both. Social media can, however, also be confusing, both in technicalities but also with understanding how people will react to different approaches. Using Social Media to Build Library Communities provides pragmatic and sensible strategies for libraries to realize the potential of social media to extend and transform community engagement. -- Lisa Janicke Hinchcliffe, professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The eight case studies featured here provide a refreshingly honest look at the challenges of building an online community. Tips are given on how to approach audience research and engagement, but the true jewel is how internal workflows were established to support the time-intensive need of feeding the social media beast. -- Amanda Goodman, publicity manager, Darien Library, Darien, Connecticut Just like the best social media, this book offers a blend of personal insight with professional expertise. The contributors are all practitioners and offer best practices for all types of platforms and libraries. This will be essential reading for any librarian, even those who are already social media experts. -- Margaret Heller, digital services librarian, Loyola University Chicago
Advancing the development of community is a core mission for libraries of all types. Communities of practice support growth and development for library workers. Social media promises assistance in both. Social media can, however, also be confusing, both in technicalities but also with understanding how people will react to different approaches. Using Social Media to Build Library Communities provides pragmatic and sensible strategies for libraries to bring realize the potential of social media to extend and transform community engagement. -- Lisa Janicke Hinchcliffe, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author Information
Scott W. H. Young is assistant professor and digital initiatives librarian at Montana State University Library. He has published and presented on user experience, participatory design, social media, and web privacy. Doralyn Rossmann is associate professor, administrative director of Data Infrastructure and Scholarly Communication, and head of collection development at Montana State University Library. Her recent presentations and publications include public budgeting, library–vendor relations, and social media including ethics, optimization, and community building.
