Monday, December 10, 2007

Online Social Networking and the Library

If the 21st century library's aim is to "go where the customers are" then VBPL could certainly maintain a social networking site to engage it's teen customers.
The site could become an important information warehouse and forum for our teen customers. The OSN site would have links to valuable resources such as colleges, dating, health advice as well as a homework page that connects them to local middle and high school online sources.
This site might also feature music, community events, etc that the teen might not otherwise have access to.
Having a teen VBPL OSN would acknowledge our ability to stay current with the times and technology. While offering relevant services to our teen community we might also pick up on teen interests and needs that would allow us to fine tune our services even more.

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