Social Media for Creative Libraries

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Social Media for Creative Libraries by Phil Bradley explores how librarians and information professionals can harness online tools to communicate effectively, teach diverse skills, and enhance marketing and promotion within their institutions. This fully updated guide, building on Bradley's earlier work, focuses on daily library activities and how social media can support them. Topics include the importance of authority checking in a digital age, crafting engaging online presentations, enhancing teaching and training experiences, implementing new strategies, developing social media policies, and learning from social media missteps.
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This book is ideal for library and information professionals seeking practical advice to incorporate social media in their work. It is especially useful for those interested in improving communication, education, marketing, and policy development within a library context.

This book takes a practical look at the activities that librarians undertake to see how they can be better achieved – more quickly, more efficiently and with more impact – using social media tools.

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Social Media for Creative Libraries explains how librarians and information professionals can use online tools to communicate more effectively, teach people different skills and to market and promote their service faster, cheaper and more effectively.

Based on his acclaimed work How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library, Phil Bradley has restructured and comprehensively updated this new book to focus on the activities that information professionals carry out on a daily basis, before then analysing and explaining how online tools can assist them in those activities. Including:

a discussion of authority checking and why information professionals are needed more than ever in a social media world
a guide to creating great presentations online
how online tools can make teaching and training sessions easier and more enjoyable for information professionals
useful tips for implementing new strategies in libraries and a discussion of the practicalities of library marketing and promotion
how to create a good social media policy and why
a look at a few social media disasters and how they could have been avoided

Readership: Packed with features and accompanied by introductory videos on the Facet Publishing YouTube channel, Social Media for Creative Libraries is essential reading for all library and information professionals.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781856047135

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 January 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 134g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Phil Bradley has a background as an information professional and has worked in the field of electronic publishing for the last 15 years. He is currently an independent internet consultant and is well known throughout the industry for his talks, training courses, lectures, books and articles on various aspects of electronic publishing and the internet.

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