Off Campus and Off the Web Site: Reaching and Teaching Library Users Online on Social Networks--The Wiki!

This wiki has been created as a resource for attendees of the Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference who will be participating in our workshop.  This resource is meant to contain all of the resources that we will be mentioning during the course of the workshop plus additional resources that we discover and decide to be of interest to librarians wishing to establish and maintain a presence in the arena of social networking sites, of which MySpace and Facebook arguably two of the most popular.

The following is the official description of this workshop as it appears on the OCLS conference program website:

Thursday April 24, 2008 1:15 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Theater

Maximum 20

Laptop provided if needed

The workshop will provide models of best practices and a guided, hands-on opportunity for developing a library presence on the social network sites MySpace and Facebook. 

Participants will leave with a sound understanding of how to build and maintain an effective presence on a social network and a beginning framework for a library profile on MySpace and Facebook.  Participants will learn how to use platform-specific resources available through the network communities as well as layout, text, still images, audio visual materials, applications, widgets and their imaginations to deliver expected library services as well as unexpected and publicly engaging surprises.   Furthermore, participants will establish individual guidelines and timetables for developing and maintaining their profiles to assure that the sites remain fresh, useful and engaging for their distant learner communities.

We are so glad you have signed up for our workshop.  We invite you now to

• leave us a response comment to our Ponderings
• learn more about Libraries and Social Networks
• and get in a little deeper with MySpace Layouts, Features, and Tools

Thanks!

Eric & Beth