My local library is embracing the brave new world of technology. Waltham Public Library has been blogging for quite awhile. There are three blogs: general blog, library book blog and suggestions blog.
They’re also twittering now. If you want to follow them, the twitter handle is walthamlibrary.
For those unfamiliar with this concept, twiiter is a microblogging system that people use to send out notes or updates.
I think it’s pretty cool that the library is doing this. It’s a great way to engage young people who are social media savvy. My only complaint is that they don’t have that many tweets up yet.
There are a lot of ways to disseminate information these days and more people are turning to new social media tools like twitter to share information. By spreading the net wide, hopefully the library can garner even more attention and lure more visits.
http://www.waltham.lib.ma.us/blog/main/
http://waltham.lib.ma.us/blog//
http://waltham.lib.ma.us/blog/suggestions/
It’s great to see more libraries embracing technology to become more mainstream. One of my favorite book blogs is the Seattle Public Library’s Shelf Talk, http://shelftalk.spl.org/
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