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Branding your library with Local History: Blogs and Social Media
Enhance your library's image by uncovering your community's past! From book displays to online exhibits; learn how to introduce patrons to your local history treasures.
Social Media and Blogging
Trey Speegle
- Facebook and Twitter can be used to post quotes from letters, journals or newspapers.
- Update users instantaneously about programs and recent acquisitions.
- Highlight items of the week/month.
- Users can share and comment , generating instant PR via word-of-mouth and contributing to “History-Making” experience.
Blogs
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Marlboro Free Library Local History BlogCourtesy of the Marlboro Free Library
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On The StreetThe blog of Historic Huguenot Street
Facebook and Twitter pages
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Tweets of OldOne-line brevities from historic newspapers resurrected as Facebook statuses
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Lieutenant Benjamin GilbertExcerpts from the published diary and letter-book of a Continental Army officer.
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John Quincy Adams Twitter page"The line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his journey to Russia on 5 August 1809. A project of the Massachusetts Historical Society."