Comments on: Public libraries and social media: as local and as useful as your fingers https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com What's happening to your library? Sun, 03 Jan 2021 13:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Andrew Dalziel https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/practitioners/promotional-techniques-and-marketing/public-libraries-and-social-media-as-local-and-as-useful-as-your-fingers#comment-49438 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 13:47:42 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=7690#comment-49438 Do bear in mind that the core, essential, public library offer is the availability of books, real or digital. Like it or not that is what libraries are rated on and councillors judge you on. I doubt anybody has stopped using their library because there wasn’t a Twitter feed. Customers stop using libraries because they cannot find any book they want to read. Twitter will most likely simply encourage the promotion of an ever expanding list of non-core subjects. Promoting something just because it is local is pointless, do library users really care?. Would any of us use Tesco’s more if they tweeted about local events?. I don’t use my local library service because it’s provision of books is appalling and it’s a waste of my time visiting them, online or in person. None of my friends use their libraries for the same reason. But then they all have different, but “minority” interests.

]]> By: Binoy Mathew https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/practitioners/promotional-techniques-and-marketing/public-libraries-and-social-media-as-local-and-as-useful-as-your-fingers#comment-49431 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 06:49:19 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=7690#comment-49431 Good article that gave many ideas regarding with the use of social media for Libraries.

]]> By: rose tanner https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/practitioners/promotional-techniques-and-marketing/public-libraries-and-social-media-as-local-and-as-useful-as-your-fingers#comment-6115 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 06:48:44 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=7690#comment-6115 In reply to Thomas Ballantyne.

Can you share your hilarious twitter librarians? Thanks.

]]> By: Clare West https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/practitioners/promotional-techniques-and-marketing/public-libraries-and-social-media-as-local-and-as-useful-as-your-fingers#comment-6114 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:13:26 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=7690#comment-6114 Some great ideas here. I would add that supporter groups (who should all have Twitter and FB accounts) are a useful conduit if you have restrictions on use of social media.

]]> By: Thomas Ballantyne https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/practitioners/promotional-techniques-and-marketing/public-libraries-and-social-media-as-local-and-as-useful-as-your-fingers#comment-6113 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:55:09 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=7690#comment-6113 I am excited to see the library get on board with this. Nothing like getting smart passionate people to ignite the flames of education. There are a couple of librarians on twitter I currently follow that are a real hoot!

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