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Meredith Farkas
Building the Academic Library 2.0
This podcast, taken from the Building the Academic Library 2.0 conference which took place recently at the University of California, Berkeley, covers the conference opening and keynote speech by Meredith Farkas. Meredith is probably best know for creating the online course 5 weeks to a social library which ran earlier this year. I haven’t finished the podcast yet, (it is over 1 hour long) but so far she has provided some interesting examples of how libraries are reaching out to their customers:
A US college ran a survey and found that students first port of call when they got a new essay title was to ring their parents for help. In response, the library now runs breakfast orientation sessions for parents, to make sure they are aware of all the resources available to their children.
A US librarian is using her Facebook profile to interact directly with students, through her profile they can make requests for new book purchases. She then alerts them via Facebook when the books are available in the library.
I must go back to this later.
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