I am all over this one. The library has a facebook page (Town of Ballston Community Library), we tweet (TOBLibrary), we have e-news (sign up on our website), you can Meebo me from our web page, and if you knit (or crochet), I'm on Ravelry, one of my very favorite places on the web.
Ravelry is really a wonderful example of what can be done with an online community. In addition to having subject specific groups (including one for librarians), it offers everything from a place to record and search within your own books and magazines to a link to WorldCat to search for books in nearby libraries. You can also search for a specific pattern, post your pictures of the finished product, and look at what other people made. You can search for specific yarns, stores that sell them, and people who rated them. You can email friends or look at what they've made or at which books and magazines they own. I'm sure there are lessons libraries could learn from the multitude of options and information available on Ravelry. It's worth checking out even if you don't knit or crochet. If you break down and go there, my name on there is gnaed (and I'm going to explain right up front that it's part of my last name, backwards).
I just had to laugh (not at you) when I read that there was a social network for knitting librarians. That is awesome.
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Any time, any where. All you have to do is ask me.
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