Are you on Friendster, Facebook or other social networking sites? Well, if you're a Filipino librarian, you should be on FilipinoLibrarians.org, too. If you're a regular reader of this blog, but are not part of any social networking site, why not try setting up an account at FilipinoLibrarians.org?
On FilipinoLibrarians.org, you can set up your own blog, upload photos and videos, communicate with other Filipino librarians around the world and see for yourself why social networking has become so popular in the past few years. You may not see the need for social networking now, but librarians around the world have already begun experimenting with these sites as a means to create a presence for the library where its users already are. I personally think it's a good way of shattering stereotypes about librarians.
For more about the usefulness of social networking, see the following:
- "Libraries in Social Networking Software" (Meredith Farkas)
- "Social networking for libraries a bust?" (Sarah Houghton-Jan) - note: read the comments!
- "25 Useful Social Networking Tools for Librarians" (CollegeDegree.com)
- "Why should libraries be socially networking?" (Jessamyn West)
