How libraries are using Social Media

How libraries are using Social Media.

1. Blog: Libraries can use Blogs to post their own updates, events, and announcements for the public to read about.
https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/blogs
2. YouTube: The use of popular Social Media platforms such as YouTube can allow libraries to showcase antique books or old cartoons.
https://www.youtube.com/user/wwwnlagovau
3. Facebook: Facebook serves as a way for any library to notify their members with events, appropriate study jokes, or surveys about the library services.
https://www.facebook.com/MacquarieUniversityLibrary/
4. Twitter: The use of a fast and reliable news platform such as Twitter allows a library to update its events, announcements and the such en masse.
https://twitter.com/unilibrary?lang=en
5. Instagram: Instagram allows libraries to post photos of very rare and valuable manuscripts, books, and other such things.
https://www.instagram.com/library_vic/?hl=en

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