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Introduction
Twitter is a free Microblogging service that allows you to compose blog posts of 140 characters or less via:
- Twitter's web interface
- SMS (text messages from your cell phone)
- instant messaging (send messages from selected
- third-party applications
People may follow your posts via:
- Twitter's web interface
- SMS (text messages from your cell phone)
- instant messaging (send messages from selected
- third-party applications
- in a feed reader (your posts generate a unique RSS feed)
Libraries using Twitter
I think it would be nice to have libraries tell how they use twitter, and thus share their best practices in stead of only mentioning that they use it.
- Ada Library (Idaho) adalib
- Alaska State Library akstatelibrary
- Allegheny County Libraries (Pennsylvania) aclalibraries
- Ann Arbor District Library (Michigan) aadl
- Arapahoe Library District Teens (Colorado) ald_teens
- Arlington Heights Memorial Library (Illinois) ahml
- Barrington Area Library (Illinois) BALOver18
- Barrington Area Library's Teen Zone (Illinois) BALTeenZone
- Binghamton University Libraries (New York) Binghamton U Library
- Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) B'ham Public Library
- Casa Grande Library (Arizona) cglibrary
- Cita Dennis Hubbell Branch Library (Louisiana) hubbell
- Cleveland Public Library (Ohio) Cleveland_PL
- Coates Library, Trinity University (Texas) coateslibrary
- Danbury (Connecticut) danburylibrary
- Denver Public Library (Colorado) denverlibrary
- Duke University Reference Dept. (North Carolina) askref
- Evanston Public Library (Illinois) evanstonpl
- Evanston Public Library Teen Loft (Illinois) evanstonloft
- Free Library of Philadelphia FreeLibrary
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Michigan) grpl
- Grand Rapids Public Library Teen Dept (Michigan) grplteens
- Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist University (Texas) hamonarts
- Henry Country Library (Kentucky) hcpl
- Kansas City Public Library (Missouri) KCPubLibrary
- Kenosha Public Library (Wisconsin) mykpl
- Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (California) NSLC
- Lawrence Technological University Library (Michigan) LTULib
- Lester Public Library (Wisconsin) lesterpublic
- Library of Congress (Washington, DC) librarycongress
- Lincoln Trail Libraries System (Champaign, IL) lincolntrail
- Lunar and Planetary Institute Library (Texas) LPI_Library
- McNeese State University Library's Government Documents Department (Louisiana) MSUGovDocs
- Michigan State University Libraries (Michigan) MSULibraries
- Missouri River Regional Library (Missouri) mrrl
- Monroe County Public Library System (New York) MCLS
- Nebraska Library Commission NLC_Reference
- Maryland AskUsNow! askusnow
- New Trier High School Library [1]
- Norlin Library (Colorado) [2]
- North Suburban Library System nsls
- North Tonawanda Public Library Children's Department(New York) ntlibrarykids
- Northeastern Illinois University Ronald Williams Library neiulibrary
- Peace Palace Library, peacepalace
- Penn State University Libraries, psulibs
- Penrose Library, University of Denver (Colorado) dupenrose
- Plymouth District Library (Michigan) PlymouthDL
- Providence Public Library (Rhode Island) provlib
- Regents Center Library-University of Kansas at Edwards Campus, LibraryKUEC
- Roanoke County Public Library (Virginia) RoCoPubLib
- Roosevelt University Library (Illinois) rulibrary
- Santa Fe Public Library sfpl
- Skokie Public Library, skokielibrary
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries SILibraries
- South Carolina State Library, scstatelibrary
- UIUC Undergraduate Library (Illinois) askundergrad
- UIUC Music and Performing Arts Library (Illinois) mpaluiuc
- UC Berkeley Data Lab ucdatalab
- UC Berkeley Doe/Moffitt Technology Training (dmtech) dmtech
- UMass Amherst Learning Commons umasslc
- University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library UBHSL
- University at Buffalo Libraries UBLibraries
- University of Montevallo umlibrary
- Vancouver Public Library (BC Canada) VPL
- Washington-Centerville Public Library (Ohio) washcentlibrary
- Washington State University Libraries (Washington) WSULibraries
- West Springfield Public Library (Massachusetts) WSPLEvents
- Worthington Libraries (Ohio) worthingtonlib
- Yale Science Libraries (Connecticut) yalescilib
- YAMANAKAKO Public Library (Japan) lib-yamanakako / 山中湖情報創造館 (日本)
See also Library Twitter league with real time tracking of follower counts of over 400 official Library Twitter accounts.
Librarians Who Twitter
More Info on Twitter
- Twitter Fan Wiki An unofficial wiki dedicated to all things Twitter.
- Twitter Support: FAQ
- Twittering Libraries article written fall 2008 LIS 5313 course by Lindy Brown, a MLIS student at Florida State University's College of Information
- All a Twitter: Want to Try Microblogging? article By Ellyssa Kroski -- School Library Journal, 7/1/2008
