Jeg må innrømme at jeg ikke kan huske å ha hørt om NextSpace fra OCLC, men det nyeste nummeret - nummer 7 i rekken - ser ut til å ha noen potensielt interessante artikler:
Libraries and social networking
The term social networking may be new, but the concepts behind it—sharing content, collaborating with others and creating community—have been around for a long time. What is new is the digital medium, which makes connecting with other people faster, easier and more accessible to a wider population than it’s ever been before. NextSpace asked nine experts for their thoughts about our increasingly online lives.
Social networking drives teen library usage
In 2006, Denver Public Library created a presence on MySpace to offer teens online activities to stay connected, as well as links to library resources aimed at this age group, such as homework help, 24/7 online reference and materials for checkout. The result? Traffic to the library’s online teen site shot up 41 percent. “We asked ourselves, ‘Why not go to where the teens are?’ We can give them a new idea of what a library is and make them feel comfortable here.”
OCLC is putting social functionality into WorldCat.org to build a social network of the world’s library users.
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