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For Central Oklahoma Bibliophiles

A group called the “Bibliophiles of Oklahoma” is looking for members.  Perhaps you are interested? Here’s the blog.

Libraries and Social Networking

From OCLC NextSpace, nine experts provide their thoughts on the trends and behaviors of social network users.

Lori Bell (Alliance Library Systems, Second Life Librarian and Director of Innovation)
Edward Castronova (Associate Professor of Telecommunications, Indiana University)
Paul Jones (Director of ibiblio.org)
Hemanshu Nigam (Chief Security Office, MySpace)
Kitty Pope (Alliance Library System, Second Life Librarian and Executive Director)
Fred Stutzman […]

Reaching Students with Facebook

This article is in the Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, v.8 no.2 (Summer 2007).
Do you keep stats on your Library 2.0 traffic? If you have a presence on Facebook or MySpace, what kind of questions or interactions do you get? The Penn State librarians who wrote this article indicate that their […]

New OCLC Report

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
“The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common ground—shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location—is as old as human societies, but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on the Web. This OCLC membership report […]