Wednesday 3 March 2010

Libraries and Facebook

Several Oxford libraries have a Facebook page, and use it to offer various sorts of information: openings hours, news, new books, photographs. Several also have search boxes on the page for online catalogues (COPAC, jstor, WorldCat). I'm sure these boxes have a technical name. And links are also provided to blogs, twitter, and other services.

My initial thought, again, is that much of the material there is duplicated elsewhere, and I wonder how useful it really is to maintain yet another site.

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