The magazine of American Library Association recently tweeted about new ideas to incorporate technology into libraries. The roundup writes about libraries using technologies in innovative ways to reach people.
I am unfamiliar with some of these technologies. The author definitely assumes a familiarity with various forms of social media and internet vernacular. After I read this article I am more informed. He goes into brief detail and also provides a link to an additional resource for each initiative.
The technology initiatives include:
- Host a cloud-based collection
- Create a basic mobile website
- Start a location-based photostream with Instagram
- Integrate LibGuides into Drupal
- Balance the library voice with personal in social media
- Use crowdsourcing to create a collection
- Make a quick screencast
- Create personas before you design your website
- Use Google voice to implement text reference
- Visualize your twitter relationships with Mentionmapp
Do you think any of these ideas are interesting? Is your library using any of them?
Kroski, E. (2013). 10 great technology initiatives for your library. American Libraries. Retrieved from http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org
Kroski, E. (2013). 10 great technology initiatives for your library. American Libraries. Retrieved from http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org
My academic library is working to grow it's social media presence, an initiative taken on by our new outreach librarian. We also use LibGuides, which I think are pretty helpful. Students can simply click on a tab for a certain department or topic and easily find information pertaining to that subject, such as hours of operation or directions for logging in to their library account.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see more cloud-based collections. I've been using my public library's OverDrive account to access e-books, and it works great! It's so much easier than driving to the library to check out a book, too.
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