I am not a
Facebook user but for this assignment I open my doors and open an account and
was flooded with my family LIKES, shares, and comments just on one photo I
posted. When I search school library to see what I would found. I saw a large community of schools using
Facebook. They were posting of upcoming events, past events, book clubs, new
books, pictures of what is new in the library, and author’s new book. The
population I saw was high school and middle school but not that much of
elementary schools. Fans who posted Likes,
shares and comments were not very many in one hundred or less. It was dry and
it looked like they were trying too hard to impress.
The
advantages I saw was that it kept the community inform. They posted everything
about the library activities and life. It had pictures and quotes that kept me interested.
If there was a book fair, meeting, or a gathering of some sort it kept the fans
in the light. It can inform people of an upcoming event and needed their
support. It also gave dates of major test dates. It is free advertisement and
you can gain a community of support for any activity you have in mind. 
The disadvantages
were it was not entertaining or funny. It was flat. I did not feel part of the community. I guess
to keep up with the posting is demanding and to find how to grab a viewer to
keep coming back can be daunting. They did not update it status regularly. There wasn’t much of conversation with the
community. I did not see many parents or students commenting or posting likes. It
had very few fans.
When I
googled the disadvantage of using Facebook to promote your school library. I
found an article in http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1103&context=ulib_fac
and found that it take considerable time to keep up the status. One
would have to spend considerable amount of time to keep up with its demands. People
who are in social media expect a quick respond or else they lose interest. One
suggested to use the students themselves to post but that can be risky the
librarian will have to be vigilant of what they are posting is appropriate.
Just like
when I open a Facebook account and was flooded by likes from my family and
friends I felt pressured to keep posting new pictures and comment on others in
order to meet their interest. I could not do it I had grades due, projects that
needed finished and appointments I had to go to. Social media does take a lot
of time and I can’t imagine how librarians do it to keep up with the demands
Twitter
More people
and organizations are turning to Twitter to inform people what is happening and
what they are thinking. I found that you can have a conversation of 140
characters long and you can connect with more people with hashtags. It’s more
popular with teens. The adult demographic are using it to promote their professionals
or business. I looked and found each was taking about what the new best and
that’s what makes coming to them wonderful. This is what I saw as I went in to
Twitter,
maggie-stiefvater: I love
this book. I’ve loved it since @brennayovanoff
started writing it and I... http://tmblr.co/Zj3Gay20rhWxx
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Wow, my hour
went by fast just looking at everyone’s’ tweets. I enjoyed the last on by
Gwyneth Jones. Her overt personality showed through her tweets. They were all
informative and cognitive stimulating.
I'm impressed you managed to spend only an hour at a time on Twitter! I've actually started setting a timer for when I get on because time flits away while I'm following Tweets and delving into shared links.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Facebook goes, I think you will find that it doesn't actually take that much time to keep up with. The high school librarian I'm interning with right now takes pictures with her phone during activities like book club, and she can upload them straight to the library's Facebook or Twitter within moments. There is the downside that you can't see the amount of traffic actually visiting your page, though. We are both trying to figure out a way to drive more interest to the social media pages.
I do find the time to read my post a bit challenging in order to keep up with everyone. I do find Twitter a bit more resourceful in regards to links, blogs, and chats. The time invested to carry on both a Twitter and Facebook account a bit challenging. As a future librarian I would involve my aid in helping me keeping both medias up to date.
ReplyDeleteI think that Facebook and Twitter are valuable assets to any school library for promotion and many other reasons. Although, I do agree with your viewpoint on the disadvantages of social media and the fact that they are a lot of work to keep up with. If you do not keep your posts current, viewers can easily lose interest. This is definitely something that the librarian will need to plan out time for and make a point to keep their library's profile current.
ReplyDeleteI think your observation that many libraries using Facebook are middle and high schools shows that these are the students more appropriately aged for Facebook. Although elementary school parents might use Facebook and Twitter, I would feel more uncomfortable with the perils of Social Media and younger elementary school students.
ReplyDeleteThe paper you posted advises that we use the media our audience use. So you have to see how that works within your population, students and parents alike. It seems good advice!
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