Optimizing Library Services-Using Social Media to Engage with Library Patrons

摘要

Last spring, I taught an online library media and technology class. The class was assigned to write four technology reviews addressing how a specific technology could be used as an educator and as a librarian. The question prompt for the assignment was: “Ask yourself, how could this technology be applied in the library/education environment, and why would that audience care to use this technology?" While most of the submissions were written about educational applications that can be used in the classroom, like Mindomo (mindomo.com),or Storybird (storybird.com), one fourth of the submissions were written about social media applications.