Libraries and Twitter
I’ve been waiting for someone to make Twitter seem useful. Jenny at The Shifted Librarian points to this article about how one library is sending their RSS feeds to a Twitter account, so that subscribers recieve notices on their cell phones. It would no doubt take an aggressive advertising campaign to get people to subscribe to a library’s Twitter feed, (and who knows how many undergraduates are using Twitter) but it’s easy to set up, without cost, and without significant time committment. As long as it wasn’t over used (I can see students getting irritated with a barrage of text messages) I can see how this would be a useful outreach tool, particularly for day-of advertising: “Remember: RefWorks workshop 2nite @ 7:00 @ the Library”
On a realted note, David Lee King points to other libraries who are using Twitter.
