Mobile Web 2.0 Reference for

the Underfunded and Lonely

Library

Tweet-a-Librarian

September 17, 2010 Sonnet Ireland and Faith Simmons

MSU Libraries Emerging Technology Summit Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

supplement

traditional

reference

increase

awareness of

library resources

mobile reference

using existing

technology

goals for twitter and

text message reference

“Twitter is an information

network made up of 140-

character messages called

Tweets.”

-Twitter 101

-communication

-reader

-networking

-pop culture

-activism

SCREEN SHOTS-Website features-Celebrities and verified accounts.

beyond twitter.com

tweetdeck

bit.ly

foursquare

facebook

twitter.com/ekl_library

#unolib