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Libraries Get Personal: Facebook Applications, Google Gadgets, and MySpace Profiles

Andrew Harris (UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (harrisas@ucla.edu))
Susan Lessick (Head of the Grunigen Medical Library at University of California, Irvine, California, USA. (slessick@uci.edu))

Library Hi Tech News

ISSN: 0741-9058

Article publication date: 25 September 2007

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Abstract

Purpose

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The purpose of this paper is to describe applications, gadgets, and profiles that libraries have developed and distributed through the Facebook, iGoogle, and MySpace communities.

Design/methodology/approach

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provides a general review.

Findings

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Growing number of libraries and library‐related organizations are creating practical tools using Web 2.0 technologies.

Originality/value

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Librarians need to keep abreast of and experiment with these new methods of packaging and delivering information.

Keywords

Citation

Harris, A. and Lessick, S. (2007), "Libraries Get Personal: Facebook Applications, Google Gadgets, and MySpace Profiles", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 24 No. 8, pp. 30-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/07419050710836018

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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