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College students dont use Twitter
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 09:16 AM PDT
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In a report on a USF study, that I found a little disheartening, it was concluded that, while college students do use social media, they dont use Twitter much and remain unaware of its use for business/professional purposes.
So, they use it to connect with friends, but couldnt care less about businesses, brands or organizations trying to reach out to them that way. Which could means that very few students would follow a librarys Twitter profile, or if we extrapolate to other platforms, a librarys Facebook Page for example. Discouraging when students are the main clienteles I want to reach using those tools.
Rates of usage are very low:
Of the 250 Florida college students surveyed, 99 percent use social networking sites. However, only 15 percent have an account with Twitter and 34 percent have never even heard of the site. Some 58 percent of the students who have Twitter accounts never use the service or rarely log-on.
Is this only in Florida? Is this only for the lowerclassmen? If I look right now at the followers of my librarys Twitter profile, I see faculty, staff, other librarians and library organizations, an alumn and community members. No one that I could really call a true-blue student. Im working on more promotion right now so maybe that will change a bit. I need to research what has worked elsewhere (because there are plenty of libraries on Twitter.)
I still think Twitter is a great way to push news and content to users but maybe those users need to be more educated on Twitter.
And by the way, my librarys profile is @usfplib
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Help with research/publishing/presenting
Posted: 16 Apr 2009 10:08 AM PDT
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The Internet Resources column in the April issue of CRL News (vol. 70, no. 4) offers a useful list of resources to help academic librarians with the research component of their workload. The column, by Laurie L. Putnam, is entitled Professional Writing and Publishing: Resources for Librarians.
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OCLC and EBSCO partner for full text
Posted: 08 Apr 2009 10:54 AM PDT
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OCLC and Ebsco have announced an agreement that makes it possible for libraries that subscribe to both WorldCat Local and EBSCOhost services to provide their users with online access to the full text of electronic content.
My system has a WorldCat Local beta installation (and several Ebsco products). Users who have tried the beta have really liked the fact that you can search both books and articles with the same search. Easy access to the full text is a definite plus.
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Twitter resources in Education
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT
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An interesting list of tips, apps, and resources for teachers on Twitter (100 of them). May be more geared toward K-12 but still some good ideas for the higher ed crowd.
Im playing with the idea of a session for my faculty.
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How librarians can use Google Book Search
Posted: 31 Mar 2009 10:46 AM PDT
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Steve Ostrem at Library Journal wrote a nice article on how librarians can use Google Book Search for reference, research and collection development.
Particularly interesting, and new, is the popular passages search, the subject headings, the ability to clip and paste from public-domain works and the personalization options now offered via My Library with a Google account. Theres also the links to Worldcat (which I find myself using more than my own library catalog now.) All in all, without mentioning the copyright issues, Google Book Search does get better and better.
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