Twitter...

Sarah Milstein's article on Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) at states "For example, a library could share all kinds of news that patrons want. Short messages can tell people about events such as readings, lectures, and book sales; newly available resources; or changes in the building hours. One message a day or one a week could share a tip on finding or accessing information online or in the building. Twitter posts can link to interesting news stories about literacy or about libraries. When appropriate, the posts can link to a library’s own website and blog for more in-depth information." With all that in mind... I am not a Twitter girl. I joined Twitter a couple of years ago and couldn’t really find a use for it. As a children’s librarian, it may be something I would work toward in the future. I really liked Jen’s library tweets so it may be something that I use if I moved to a school with older students. The tweets that I read directed me back to websites for the actual articles so it is just a type of advertising shorthand to me. I don’t have any friends, family or kids that tweet…so I will let that one just ruminate. Tyler Whitesides is coming to my school tomorrow so for his visit I send out a parent email, added the notice to the parent newsletter and created a slideshow with pages from his book and info about him that ran in the affected classrooms on their SmartBoards and on the bigscreen by the school office. I can see a lot of use for social media, especially for library content and advertising. Twitter just isn’t my personal choice.