Libraries and Social Media: Follow a Library Day #followalibrary

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Follow a library day is again upcoming on 1 October.

David Green wrote a guest post for the International Librarians Network:

Libraries and Social Media: Follow a Library Day.

“It’s a marketing, advocacy, networking free-for-all; a drop-in, casual twitter chat that feels like a group hug. Everyone everywhere can participate, and with steering committee members from South Africa, the Netherlands, and Australia, it’s truly an international affair.

How to play:

• Add #followalibrary to your tweets

• Follow @followalibrary for discussion topics and questions

• Watch the stream by searching #followalibrary”

First ILN welcome webinar

I attended the International Librarians Network first webinar on Saturday morning at 12am South African time. Although I have been through 3 ILN peer mentoring programmes already, it was the first time that an introductory webinar was held.

They made use of anymeeting to conduct the webinar. It had to be downloaded to my iPad, but it was extremely easy to use!

I was glad that I stayed awake on Friday night to hear the voices of the ILN programme coordinators.

It is an eye opener to see how the programme is expanding: 572 participants from 72 countries is taking part in this most recent programme. It is very inspiring!

we have 572 participants from 72 countries this round, wow! #ILNwelcome

— InterLibNet (@InterLibNet) September 16, 2014

I have had peer mentors from Australia, Indonesia, Spain and now from Manchester in the United Kingdom.

It is also exciting to see all the country coordinators from around the world.

The most important message that I am taking with me is that we can take up issues with the programme coordinators, and rather sooner than later. I have been very lucky with regards my own peer partnering, and have learnt much from my international peers.

Thank you very much, International Librarians Network! I appreciate all your efforts, which is voluntary and must take up a lot of your time!

Sharing my workspace as first dialogue with my new ILN partner

The third round of the International Librarians Network kicked off with an invitation to showcase our workspaces.

I shared two of these photos with my new ILN partner from Manchester in the UK. I am excited to learn more about a new library environment.

Two technical computers to handle digital audio systems, with a personal computer on my desk

Yamaha Digital Mixing Console

Reel-to-reel tapes machines: Studer (left) and ReVox (right)

Marantz CD player, Tascam MD player and a Denon cassette player

Thorens record player in the middle (marked as a “professional Disc Drive”)