Social Media & Collection Development: BFF!

Social Media &

Collection Development:

BFF!Steven R. Harris

Director of Collections & Acquisitions Services

University of New Mexicosrharris@unm.edu

Professional Me

Steven R. Harris

Director of Collections & Acquisitions ServicesAssociation Professor of Librarianship

Phone: 505..277.2586Email: srharris@unm.edu

Zimmerman Library • MSC05 3020 • 1 University of New Mexico • Albuquerque, NM

87131-0001

Social Media Me

Collection DevelopmentLibrarians

Don’t DO Social Media

case in point

Selecting Poetry

Liorah Golomb, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, in press

Liorah Golomb, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, in press

Why is that?

Tangible

Selection?

Patron-Driven

Community

RadicalCollaboration

SOCIAL MEDIAinto your work life

Integrating

Elements of Selection

• Discovery• Evaluation

• Request

Traditional Selection Tools

• Slow• Bias

• Selective

Discovery

Facebook

Twitter

http://www.highspotinc.com/twitterJT.html

Blogosphere

Non-traditional traditional

Unconventional

followthereader.wordpress.com

Managing Feeds

RSS

Evaluation

WorldCat

WorldCatIdentities

LibraryThing

goodreads

Request

WorldCatLists

zotero

del.icio.usdelicious

http://www.delicious.com/srharris19/bought4lib

Amazon

Pitfalls

Uptake

Overload?

Failure to include the analog

Approaches

• Massively friending the user population

• Meet them where they are comfortable their home turf

• Bait and switch teach the tools for other purposes & piggyback collection development

Roles for:• Library users• Subject Librarians• Acquisitions Staff• Head of Collections

Develop a workflow• Listen to Twitter• Confirm on WorldCat• Bookmark on Amazon• Tap into your friends

Living Social

Fin

Photo Credits • Libraryman: Michael Porter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/5355118291

• Jeffrey Beall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/367606435

• Cindiann: Cindi Trainor: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/352573802

• Randy Read: http://www.flickr.com/photos/randyread/373935680

• Dave Fletcher: http://www.flickr.com/photos/themechanism/128209408

• Vagawi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vagawi/3155400274/

• Bryn Davies: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryndavies/3879078437

• Jarkko Sakki: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarkkos/250725568

• DaveOnFlickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49392213@N00/5094020069/

• Cindiann: Cindi Trainor: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/4747022606/

• Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG: http://www.flickr.com/photos/presidioofmonterey/4081221064

• Dane Low: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danelow/3751740208

• iirraa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iirraa/49942285

• Photos o’ Randomness: Christa Burns: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christajoy42/3415556999/

srharris19 virtually everywhere

www.collectionconnection.alcts.ala.org

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