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How the Penrose Library at the University of Denver is using social networking tools to connect to students and faculty.
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Social Networking and the Penrose Library
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Science and Engineering Librarian
April 3, 2009
Presentation at the CoASL Spring Workshop
Note
This slide show is at: www.slideshare.com/jokrausdu
Question
How do Kindergarteners learn?
Answer?
Playing with toys and games Trying things out Experimenting Watching, observing, touching and reading Having fun
What is Penrose using and doing?
Cool Tools Page http://library.du.edu/FindIt/ResearchGuides/rg_main.cfm?rg_id=313
Twitter Facebook LibX Toolbar Blogs Encore tagging A wiki as an Intrazone (not viewable by the public) LibraryH3lp chat tool (will be using soon) Website redesign (before Fall 2009)
What are the results of the social networking? Not sure yet… We have 230+ fans in Facebook, 58+ in Twitter Beth Kanter does a lot of research on “How
Nonprofits Can Use Social Media”. Businesses want to use social networking for
marketing and building customer relationships. See these 87 books, reports and more.
What am I personally using?
FriendFeed -- http://friendfeed.com/jokrausdu Delicious -- http://delicious.com/jokrausdu Blogs -- http://www.nuthingbut.net/ Twitter -- http://www.twitter.com/jokrausdu Facebook -- http://du.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20204459 Photography sites -- http://www.flickr.com/jokrausdu and
http://picasaweb.google.com/jokrausdu/ YouTube -- http://www.youtube.com/jokrausdu
Questions?
Lots of ways to get a hold of me… Email – [email protected],
[email protected] Phone – 303-871-4586