Handout of web links to accompany DLS Day presentation, Virtual Libraries as Destination

1. DLS Day – Libraries as Destination
May 18, 2009
Virtual Libraries as Destination: Get Social with Your Library
Lynn Dennis, Automation Coordiantor/Technical Services Department Head
Candi Lauret, Teen Librarian
Links:
Resources:
Pew Internet & American Life Project, Generations Online, January 2009 (http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/
275/report_display.asp)
Global Faces and Networked Places: A Nielsen report on Social Networking’s New Global Footprint, March
2009
(http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/nielsen_globalfaces_mar09.pdf)
Library Applications for Social Networking by Christina Stoll, MLS, April 2009
(Originally appeared in MLS E-nnounce, Vol. 3, Iss. 7,
http://www.mls.lib.il.us/ennounce/2009/03_07/facebook.asp)
“Are you a twit if you don’t want to Twitter?” Daily Herald, April 9, 2009
(http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=285268&src=143)
Applications:
Blogger: http://www.blogger.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com
LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com
Ning: http://www.ning.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com
Roselle Public Library’s Web 2.0 sites:
Social Connections page on the Library’s website:
http://www.roselle.lib.il.us/GeneralInfo/SocialConnections.htm
Blogs:
The Blogger Book Club: http://www.roselle.lib.il.us/YouthServices/BookClub/Bloggerbookclub.htm
What’s New @ Roselle Public Library: http://www.roselle.lib.il.us/Newsletter/WhatsNew.html
Social Networking initiatives:
RPLNetwork on Ning: http://rosellelibrary.ning.com
Library fanpage on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roselle-IL/Roselle-Public-Library-
District/9981521013
Teen Scene fanpage on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roselle-IL/Teen-Scene-Roselle-Public-Library/43287809848
RPLD on LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile.php?view=rosellelibrary
RPLD on LibraryThing Local: http://www.librarything.com/venue/4516/Roselle-Public-Library-District
RPLD’s photostream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosellelibrary/
RPLD’s channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/rosellepubliclibrary
Playtime 2.0: http://rpldplaytime20.blogspot.com
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Presentation and Links available on Slideshare:
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ldennis/libraries-online-as-destination
Links: http://www.slideshare.net/ldennis/virtual-libraries-as-destination-links