What is it about?
A look into Library Twitter. Creating a large list of libraries who tweet and interviewing six libraries from different sectors who could be called successful by their peers.
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Why is it important?
So many libraries are on Twitter and a few have had wildly successful accounts but a core sense of perspective regarding time spent on social media and a good idea of what the ROI would look like is very important.
Perspectives
While working as a library assistant in a medical library I was told 'you're young, can you do a Twitter account?' to which I responded 'well I can try.' I had no idea what to Tweet about, how to measure ROI or consider patient confidentiality (not to mention staff safety - I worked in a mental health trust). I muddled my way through but would have loved a resource dashboard of medical libraries so I could see what people were doing. Not to mention a sense of perspective for what sort of metrics I could expect as a medical library.
Sarah Humphreys
University of Oxford
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This page is a summary of: Tweeting into the void?: creating a UK library Twitter list and analyzing best practice – successes and myths, Insights the UKSG journal, January 2019, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.1629/uksg.471.
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