_In Your Face(book): Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services_

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***

Friends/

I am pleased to announce the availability of my PPT
presentation delivered at the recently-concluded LITA
National Forum 2007:
[ http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/li
taevents/litanationalforum2007denver/forum2007.cfm ]

_In Your Face(book): Social Networking Sites for Engaged
Library Services_

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LITANat
ionalForum2007.ppt ]

**Original Abstract**
We believe that social networking sites such as Facebook are
excellent environments to
foster and facilitate contact and communication among
members of a local community.
We also believe that as a structured, yet open,
communication venue within an
educational community, Facebook can also serve a place and
space in which library and
librarian services can be more actively and visibly
promoted.

During the Fall 2007 semester, we will undertake a series of
outreach
initiatives using Facebook. We will contact select members
of the university Facebook
community to inform each of the availability of core
services offered by the reference and
instruction department (e.g., book and journal selection,
library presentations, research
assistance) as well as general library services (e.g.,
interlibrary loan, library collections,
reserve and media services). 

We believe that Facebook members who are contacted directly
by a librarian will be 
more apt to use library services and to contact a Facebook
librarian when an information 
need arises, then will Facebook members who are not
contacted. We also believe that 
the presence of a Facebook librarian will also generate
contact with non-targeted ISU 
Facebook members due to the networking dynamics of this
social networking environment.

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LITANat
ionalForum2007.ppt ]

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Enjoy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

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