A Facebook Page for Your Library
Assignments
1. I had created a Facebook account for our school library last July for Thing # 38. Located at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beals-School-Library/145070912176343?sk=wall
I have posted to it during the school year about different events going on.
2. Checked out the Nebraska Learns 2.0 and clicked on the Like button.
3. I had planned to put a link to it from the school web page, but was told that it was against school policy to link it from the school web page. Hopefully, that will change. Since we are an elementary school, my target audience is mainly parents and the community. I'm aware that many of our students also have Facebook accounts even though they are not yet thirteen. Whenever I ask the students about having an account, they tell me that their parents said that they could. We then have a discussion about Internet Safety. I have not imported any of my "friends" as this is not my target audience.
4. When I originally created the Facebook page for the library, it was before they had Pages. It was easy to change over and I like that there can be more than one administrator if that works for the library. I have this account under Companies & Organizations - Education. I think that this is a better fit for an elementary library. I usually post information and events that are going on in the library. I tried this morning to make a link to our curriculum based activities for students to use, but it only links to the District homepage. I even tried to create a tiny URL, but the result was the same, so I removed it.
There are not too many Facebook pages that I could find yet for the elementary library. Several that I did find, did not look like they are kept current. The ones that are posting regularly are writing about what is going on in their library.
