Libraries and social media review

Today I read an online blog called “The Library on Social media: A beginning” by Mitja Brus from the Library of the European Parliament’s blog website.

It was mostly about social media within the library, in which they argue that the vocabularies of the social media world gave no or little results when it was used in the library, thereby having to tolerate the countless number of sources for information research. More depressingly, they could not provide service to their library patrons on their information channel preferences as a result of these circumstances. Luckily, they have a vision to successfully incorporate social media into their work and to provide their customers with full and convenient support and resources when it’s needed. With this vision in mind, they established a strategy that focuses on convenience and the provision of quality information to facilitate decision making in the library.

Although I don't frequently use social media, I do recognise that libraries, in general, need to be more equipped with the use of social media, in order to keep their library patrons constantly up to date with the events that are occurring in the library.

For more information, here is the link:

http://libraryeuroparl.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/the-library-on-social-media-a-beginning/ - Viewed on 3rd August 2012