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The Facebook Frontier: Harnessing The Power Of Facebook Live, Christine A. Anderson
The Facebook Frontier: Harnessing The Power Of Facebook Live, Christine A. Anderson
South Carolina Libraries
Facebook Live offers librarians the opportunity for ongoing engagement with their community, even during a pandemic. During the COVID-19 quarantine, community organizations of all types used the site to continue to connect with their community. Kimbel Library used the social media platform to hold virtual versions of annual face-to-face events and create reference education for students and faculty. While there is no replacing the dynamics of face-to-face interaction with patrons, Facebook Live offers opportunity for continued safe social contact. It also is a “safe” place for less outgoing patrons to attend or even participate in library events they would not …
Nothin' To It But To Do It! Simple And Effective Outreach To Faculty, Jillian Collier
Nothin' To It But To Do It! Simple And Effective Outreach To Faculty, Jillian Collier
South Carolina Libraries
This paper is a summary of a poster presentation, originally presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the SCLA, which described a simple and effective method for outreach to faculty, encouraging them to schedule library instruction. Such a method can be used to improve communication with faculty and grow a library instruction program.