Comments on: Data: Students + Facebook + Library Outreach

By: Confluence: CUL Labs

Confluence: CUL Labs — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:44:31 +0000

Facebook and Libraries…

Mary Madden, “The Internet and Libraries: Snapshots from a new media landscape” Internet Evolution Presentation for Pew Internet & American Life Project, Presented to BayNet and SLASF. Feb. 6, 2008….

By: SXSW Day 1: What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones | Molly Kleinman

SXSW Day 1: What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones | Molly Kleinman — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:49:07 +0000

[...] they are going to bring their expectations for technology and communication with them to campus. They may not want their professors or librarians on Facebook, or sending them text messages, but they may respond a whole lot better to the things we try to [...]

By: Uncontrolled Vocabulary #26 - Welcome to Uncontrolled Realty | Uncontrolled Vocabulary

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:38:23 +0000

[...] bust? (LibrarianInBlack) LIBRARY WEB SURVEY FALL 2007 FORMAL REPORT (pdf – University of Michigan) Data: Students + Facebook + Library Outreach (userslib.com) are librarians culturally self-aware? (Loose Cannon [...]

By: ecorrado.us » Library 2.0: Shooting the messenger

ecorrado.us » Library 2.0: Shooting the messenger — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:34:39 +0000

[...] 34% of undergrads said “yes” or “maybe” to a question asking if they “would be interested in contacting a librarian” via MySpace or Facebook. Considering the number of students who go to Michigan, and the low [...]

By: Does anyone really want to talk to a librarian? « Libodyssey

Does anyone really want to talk to a librarian? « Libodyssey — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:34:42 +0000

[...] recent study from the United States indicated that almost 50 percent of the University of Michigan students surveyed would not want to [...]

By: Kathleen’s Weblog

Kathleen’s Weblog — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:58:54 +0000

[...] January 20, 2008 in Libraries 2.0 A Blog called Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services, discusses the results from questions in a UMichigan Library Survey pertaining to the use of Facebook by students for connecting with Library resources and Librarians. See: http://userslib.com/2007/12/15/data-students-facebook-library-outreach/ [...]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:51:54 +0000

“people are getting very tired of the invasive nature of modern advertising”…

I don’t know ‘tired’ is the right word, Doug, particularly with young people. “Immune”, maybe?
If they aren’t interested, they tune out, they almost certainly don’t even notice a sidebar advertisement on Facebook if it’s not something that interests them personally.

I’m not sure you can make the sweeping statement that students actively “don’t want us there”.
I think it’s more that they don’t care either way, as long as we’re not actively spamming them or ’stalking’ them. They’d do exactly the same in the real world, wouldn’t they?

(I can’t say that being ignored is any less depressing than being actively despised. But there’s less worry about pitchforks and flaming torches…)

I agree, what’s the harm? You’re already on Facebook, they’re already on Facebook, as long as it’s a natural extension of an existing relationship rather than something forced and gimicky, there’s no reason not to put yourself out there!

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:01:37 +0000

Call it what you want, but a library presence on a social networking application is advertisement, and people are getting very tired of the invasive nature of modern advertising. I am not surprised that students don’t want us there.