Week # 4 Twitter (the good thing)

This week we are learning about Twitter. Although I don't care for it (read my last post) there are some useful things about Twitter. One of the most useful things about Twitter is that you can tweet about events that are happening as they happen. (This is true of most social sites, I facebooked while watching the presidential inauguration). Which is very handy when it is a big news story or event. This is useful to the library because we can tweet library updates, ie power outages.

Another use for Twitter in the library is tweeting events that are happening at the moment. How nice would it be to remind members that craft/storytime/movies/book club is happening at such a such place at such a such time? (Crafts at * at 10 am). It could bring more people to the library. It never hurts to have a lot of reminders, we live such busy lives.

A library could also announce new books (although this could be very time consuming and you need a staff member to update regularly).

It probably would be a good idea for each individual branch to get their own Twitter id so members can choose what branch updates they want. Nothing worse than getting news about a place that you don't visit or get to the library to find out that you are in the wrong place.

So, I say give it a try and see what happens.