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Socially Extend Your Website With Facebook


Facebook recently surpassed Yahoo to become the second most visited site in the US. According to the article, people also spend more of their attention there and stay on the site longer than Google or Yahoo. Facebook has more than 400 million active users and half of them log in on any given day. It’s [...]

Ambient Awareness in Twitter for Reference


A couple of days ago I was able to help a patron on Twitter with a question that they had about citations. It wasn’t directly addressed to the library though, so I almost missed it. A savvy marketing professor actually referred the student to the library on Twitter, which was very helpful. This got me [...]

Meaningful Books and Getting to Know the Community


Last Friday I participated in the Meaningful Books Series at Champlain College which is run by my colleague Sarah Cohen. I don’t normally do things like this, but I really love this event series every time I’ve gone, simply because you get to learn a lot more about a member of your community. So I [...]