I've been twittering away my mornings and have been late every day this week! This has been a short week for those of us in school-library land. We had Monday off and here it is Friday already. Yesterday was our third day of the week, and I was determined to be on time; just barely made it.
I've been following several libraries. Two of the them tweet little PR blurbs about what is going on in their libraries, which is probably the more professional and accepted method of using Twitter in library land. The libraries I found myself intrigued with, however, did something different. Messinglibrary and The Unquiet Library share similar formats in that they each incorporate photos from Flickr or from Twitpic. (I have to say the one using Flickr is a little quicker to navigate.) I get excited looking at Messinglibrary's posts. Apparently the librarian there posts 3 or four times during the workday just to say what is happening in the library at that moment. Photos accompany many of the tweets. I feel like I know that library, what it feels like and what it's personality is. By looking at who that library follows, I found the Unquiet Library and was again captivated. I chose to follow these two one morning and couldn't wait to get home and see how their days went. (I know I could check it at school, but...well....all my poor students would be woefully neglected).
I probably won't use Twitter at school just yet as I do not think many of my students are on it. I do know my students use MySpace and some of the ideas I've seen on Twitter I think could be used on MySpace. I like the idea of posting what is new and happening in my library. I think the personal aspect of responding to patrons, much as the Grand Rapids Library does would be a real hook for my students.
I promised myself not to be late this AM. Tonight or tomorrow AM I'll figure out how to feed this to that voracious little twittering bird that has so captivated my attention.
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