Thing #38: Use Things to Market Your Library

After Reading Seven Strategies for Marketing in a Web 2.0 World, I decided to create a Facebook page for my school library.  It is something that I had been thinking about trying anyway.  I had created a Facebook account for myself earlier, just to see what it was like.  Hard to teach students how to be safe on Facebook if I'm not sure about what to expect.

I'm hoping that the school Facebook page will be a place that mainly parents, students (they have accounts anyway), as well as the community can go to find out about what is going on in the library (once school starts again), schedules, new books, etc.  I'm hoping to get the students interested in quick reviews of books that they are reading for others or suggestions that they would like to see available in the library.  

I'm just concerned about monitoring comments that may be inappropriate and the time involved.  This could be very time consuming especially when I'm also the webmaster for the school.  I

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7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits reflection

Good steps to follow to get any objective/task done.  The easiest habit for me to follow will be number 7 (Teach/mentor other).  This is one of the reasons that I can trying this out.  I want my students to benefit from the information that I learn about web 2.0.   The hardest one will be to find the time that I would like to play with all the new information ideas/tips.