I just read an article in American Libraries about promoting your library beyond your own website--an example being, say, putting a link to one of your special collections on the Wikipedia page about a related subject.
As I was looking at the Web 2.0 award-winner Yelp, I noticed that under Public Services, the Central Library was listed (one poster wants to live there!), along with the Highland and Hamline Libraries. My question is this: is it unethical--or at least against the user-generated-content ethos of Web 2.0--to put postings for the rest of the libraries up ourselves? We could sneak library references onto all kinds of sites.
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I think you should do it. I'm seriously. Be like, the stealth librarian. And make references in subliminal ways. It's be great.
I was thinking the same thing!
We absolutely should do it! A lot of people don't even think about calling (or emailing, or IMing) the library. We should get ourselves out there where the people are looking for information.
Do I dare call it outreach?
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