Social Media Tools

www.youtube.com


YouTube is a social media tool that allows its users to share the videos they have recorded, created or captured. These include movie clips, education materials, personal productions, tutorials and more. Other users are entitled to view and provide feedback on these to the user by commenting on the video.
Youtube would be an effective content sharing resource for the library. It can be used as an information resource to patrons, a means of marketing the library as well as in attracting patrons. The library could record videos at popular library programs and post them online to attract more patrons. It could also post tutorials to teach patrons tasks such as using the library's online database, catalog, placing holds on materials online and more.

The attached videos contain information about new library hours and the building of a new library.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofcjJZUbmHg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X96iu7bq7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1Dgwg4yvM



ww.facebook.com

Facebook is a social networking media tool that allows its users to interact, share pictures and "stay connected" with individuals or groups they are familiar (and not so familiar) with. This would be an effective content sharing medium for the library in that since social networks are popular, they are a "natural draw" to the public.
The library can use Facebook to distribute updated information about current and future library programs, services, and other special events. If users do not want to "friend" the library, they have the choice to "like" it. By doing this, they will promote a the library. Thus, by establishing an online connection to the public through Facebook, the library will be more marketable and easier to access for patrons.

The attached link leads to the Facebook page for the San Diego Public Library: Mira Mesa Branch.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/SDPL-Mira-Mesa-Branch-Library/138417379520151