What can you do with a Facebook Page?

We’re doing similar things with Vancouver Public Library’s Facebook Page, and we have plans to try to drive more traffic to the page and to build community around the page. It would be great if, for example, we could move book club discussions to Facebook where we’d attract a completely different audience than the one that normally turns out for book talks.

We’re doing similar things with Vancouver Public Library’s Facebook Page, and we have plans to try to drive more traffic to the page and to build community around the page. It would be great if, for example, we could move book club discussions to Facebook where we’d attract a completely different audience than the one that normally turns out for book talks.

I’ve added “search worldcat” and “citeme” boxes to ours. Tied in our Flickr account, advertise we have free wifi and include links to some of our other services.

I also experimented with a Group vs a Page for the library and went with Page.

I’ve added “search worldcat” and “citeme” boxes to ours. Tied in our Flickr account, advertise we have free wifi and include links to some of our other services.

I also experimented with a Group vs a Page for the library and went with Page.

Due to Hurricane Ike (we’re in Harris County – Houston, TX), our website was down for several days. We’ve had both Facebook and MySpace pages for awhile now, but honestly haven’t done much with them.

During the hurricane and it’s aftermath, we used both of these services – and set up a new Twitter account to keep our customers up-to-date. We did blog posts on MySpace, posted to the wall on Facebook – and sent updates, and learned to use Twitter. We included that we were using these services in all of our press releases and on our website updates. In so doing, we’ve gained a lot more friends, fans, and followers. We still have a long way to go, but it’s a start.

We are just not working on how we’re going to continue using these services post-hurricane for both staff and customers.

Due to Hurricane Ike (we’re in Harris County – Houston, TX), our website was down for several days. We’ve had both Facebook and MySpace pages for awhile now, but honestly haven’t done much with them.

During the hurricane and it’s aftermath, we used both of these services – and set up a new Twitter account to keep our customers up-to-date. We did blog posts on MySpace, posted to the wall on Facebook – and sent updates, and learned to use Twitter. We included that we were using these services in all of our press releases and on our website updates. In so doing, we’ve gained a lot more friends, fans, and followers. We still have a long way to go, but it’s a start.

We are just not working on how we’re going to continue using these services post-hurricane for both staff and customers.

I’ve been using it to: promote select events; display (uploaded) photos and our flickr photos; provide handy links to our other web presences; give easy access to select bloglines feeds for users (the feeds collection need work); give visibility to our delicious bookmarked websites; promote new publications; give access to lectures (via a podcast app – newest addition, today in fact, a work in progress) and presentations (using Slideshare); to promote collections in a novel way (e.g. via integrating other apps – slideshare, myplaylist.biz). What I do try to do is keep it a living space, with changing content and updates. Nothing worse than a Facbook page with no sign of life, particularly for libraries. The ‘Fan’ base is increasing at a steady if not spectacular rate. Have a look! SEE http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin/Dublin-City-Public-Libraries/9761761153

Some great ideas mentioned in your post and the follow up comments I have to say!
Eddie

I’ve been using it to: promote select events; display (uploaded) photos and our flickr photos; provide handy links to our other web presences; give easy access to select bloglines feeds for users (the feeds collection need work); give visibility to our delicious bookmarked websites; promote new publications; give access to lectures (via a podcast app – newest addition, today in fact, a work in progress) and presentations (using Slideshare); to promote collections in a novel way (e.g. via integrating other apps – slideshare, myplaylist.biz). What I do try to do is keep it a living space, with changing content and updates. Nothing worse than a Facbook page with no sign of life, particularly for libraries. The ‘Fan’ base is increasing at a steady if not spectacular rate. Have a look! SEE http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin/Dublin-City-Public-Libraries/9761761153

Some great ideas mentioned in your post and the follow up comments I have to say!
Eddie

We are looking to get a Facebook profile for our library started, so this has been very helpful info. Thanks!

We are looking to get a Facebook profile for our library started, so this has been very helpful info. Thanks!

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Great post, I have been talking about this for awhile where I work! I just love how one can pose a question and so many people respond with such great answers. In Australia I became a fan of Adelaide City Council Library:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-City-Council-Libraries/24315192063?ref=mf

Great post, I have been talking about this for awhile where I work! I just love how one can pose a question and so many people respond with such great answers. In Australia I became a fan of Adelaide City Council Library:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-City-Council-Libraries/24315192063?ref=mf

The Libraries and Librarians Group on flickr has a list of libraries with facebook pages. That same Libraries and Librarians Group also has a list of libs w/ MySpace pages and also libs w/flickr accounts (almost 200 of them on that list!). Please add you libs facebook page to that list!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/librariesandlibrarians/discuss/72157600614451622/

The Libraries and Librarians Group on flickr has a list of libraries with facebook pages. That same Libraries and Librarians Group also has a list of libs w/ MySpace pages and also libs w/flickr accounts (almost 200 of them on that list!). Please add you libs facebook page to that list!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/librariesandlibrarians/discuss/72157600614451622/

Thank you for your post. I’m a personal user of Facebook and I was hoping to get a page started for our library at Kirkwood Community College. I have been having problems, however, with applications not working with the “new Facebook”. Has anyone else had problems with Meebo Me and My HTML since Facebook changed? Are there alternative applications out there that will work that I just haven’t found?

Thank you for your post. I’m a personal user of Facebook and I was hoping to get a page started for our library at Kirkwood Community College. I have been having problems, however, with applications not working with the “new Facebook”. Has anyone else had problems with Meebo Me and My HTML since Facebook changed? Are there alternative applications out there that will work that I just haven’t found?

I have the feed from my library’s blog published on the page, I’ve used it for events (with problems), I have photo albums. Apps I use: Worldcat, CiteMe and Bookshare Books to highlight recently received books. My Discussion Board is also dead. I don’t have a lot of fans yet but then, we’re a small campus. I would like to try the Meebo app.

I have the feed from my library’s blog published on the page, I’ve used it for events (with problems), I have photo albums. Apps I use: Worldcat, CiteMe and Bookshare Books to highlight recently received books. My Discussion Board is also dead. I don’t have a lot of fans yet but then, we’re a small campus. I would like to try the Meebo app.

Manchester Libraries (UK) are on Facebook and our new favourite toy is issuu.com. It’s like Slideshare but for PDFs…but it’s much better than it sounds! Honest…and Ive added a couple to our pages here – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manchester-United-Kingdom/Manchester-Library-Information-Service/1017471305

At the moment our page also has a Flickr feed from our photos, a Delicious feed and our blog (manchester lit list) headlines. Like Eddie I try to get something new on most days. Tried the Meebo app but no-one used it. Got a few photo albums up too (librarian fashion thru the ages is my favourite). I dream of a catalogue search app!

Can anyone recommend a good bookshare app for pages rather than profiles?
Sue – Manchester Libraries

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Manchester Libraries (UK) are on Facebook and our new favourite toy is issuu.com. It’s like Slideshare but for PDFs…but it’s much better than it sounds! Honest…and Ive added a couple to our pages here – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manchester-United-Kingdom/Manchester-Library-Information-Service/1017471305

At the moment our page also has a Flickr feed from our photos, a Delicious feed and our blog (manchester lit list) headlines. Like Eddie I try to get something new on most days. Tried the Meebo app but no-one used it. Got a few photo albums up too (librarian fashion thru the ages is my favourite). I dream of a catalogue search app!

Can anyone recommend a good bookshare app for pages rather than profiles?
Sue – Manchester Libraries

We’re raking in the fans over at (a href=”http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-WA/Seattle-Public-Library-System/7511741338?ref=ts”>The Seattle Public Library Facebook page: 1,435 fans so far. Not doing too much with it, but the occassional notice goes out promoting this or that.

We’re raking in the fans over at (a href=”http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-WA/Seattle-Public-Library-System/7511741338?ref=ts”>The Seattle Public Library Facebook page: 1,435 fans so far. Not doing too much with it, but the occassional notice goes out promoting this or that.

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Ugh – I hate it when I can’t preview a comment = not a steady handed linker. Oh well, sorry. Look us up. (-:

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My favorite part of Wellesley College’s FB page is the list of subject guides I put in using the FBML application. We import our blog into the notes application, so we don’t have to fuss with any of the third-party applications. And today we got our first fan photo! We also use the WorldCat and CiteMe applications, as well as the JSTOR one, and have a search box for our catalog (which I need to update now that we’ve implemented III’s Encore.)

My favorite part of Wellesley College’s FB page is the list of subject guides I put in using the FBML application. We import our blog into the notes application, so we don’t have to fuss with any of the third-party applications. And today we got our first fan photo! We also use the WorldCat and CiteMe applications, as well as the JSTOR one, and have a search box for our catalog (which I need to update now that we’ve implemented III’s Encore.)

We jumped right in 11/07 so almost hitting one year but only just over 100 fans on the WPI Gordon Library page. We could promote the site more in classes perhaps and we need to get a better link/badge up on our library web site. We use for events, our mini-feed pulls from our RSS news that also posts to our web site. We add albums with photos from events in the library, new books, etc. We’ve added a few videos of students and staff. I noticed that a lot of my student friends change their profile photo a lot so I do this for our site every few weeks to keep it fresh and we have students who help us update/add events, etc. We plan to get more input from them on how to improve the page.

We jumped right in 11/07 so almost hitting one year but only just over 100 fans on the WPI Gordon Library page. We could promote the site more in classes perhaps and we need to get a better link/badge up on our library web site. We use for events, our mini-feed pulls from our RSS news that also posts to our web site. We add albums with photos from events in the library, new books, etc. We’ve added a few videos of students and staff. I noticed that a lot of my student friends change their profile photo a lot so I do this for our site every few weeks to keep it fresh and we have students who help us update/add events, etc. We plan to get more input from them on how to improve the page.

The other day I was looking at Facebook and it had various apps for the election. Things like keeping track of the length of lines in the polls, who had voted etc.

It got me to thinking, although lord knows we’re busy enough, of a Facebook app that could be useful during crunch times like ones that would allow people to report how crowded a particular library was, what the lines were like, and the status of frequently used reserve materials. Instead of just trying to promote discussion, gather fans and create events wouldn’t it be nice to be able send request alerts and reserve alerts to your facebook account as well.

Just pondering some things .

The other day I was looking at Facebook and it had various apps for the election. Things like keeping track of the length of lines in the polls, who had voted etc.

It got me to thinking, although lord knows we’re busy enough, of a Facebook app that could be useful during crunch times like ones that would allow people to report how crowded a particular library was, what the lines were like, and the status of frequently used reserve materials. Instead of just trying to promote discussion, gather fans and create events wouldn’t it be nice to be able send request alerts and reserve alerts to your facebook account as well.

Just pondering some things .

Jon – nice thoughts. Always a great idea – find out what your users want (in this case your Facebook users), then make facebook DO THAT for them.

So… when are you going to start building it?

Jon – nice thoughts. Always a great idea – find out what your users want (in this case your Facebook users), then make facebook DO THAT for them.

So… when are you going to start building it?

Let me put it this way. I would put it on my pile, but I can no longer reach it. In addition they tell me my plans to put another ladder on top of the one currently next to it violates OSHA codes.

I’ll continue to daydream of a skunkworks forming here. (Already have a name, the LePews) I’ll tackle it then…

Let me put it this way. I would put it on my pile, but I can no longer reach it. In addition they tell me my plans to put another ladder on top of the one currently next to it violates OSHA codes.

I’ll continue to daydream of a skunkworks forming here. (Already have a name, the LePews) I’ll tackle it then…

Our Facebook page has over 200 fans, and we are doing many of the things mentioned here, plus some advertising.

Full description of what we are doing on Facebook here.

Our Facebook page has over 200 fans, and we are doing many of the things mentioned here, plus some advertising.

Full description of what we are doing on Facebook here.

Pages are indeed great ways to attract and retain fans of your Company, Library, Non-profit, or Music group.

You mentioned you need a Flickr app to display your photos. I developed the application “My Flickr” available at http://myflickrapp.com/facebookapp for users to display their Flickr photos on their Facebook Page or profile!

-Kaleb

Pages are indeed great ways to attract and retain fans of your Company, Library, Non-profit, or Music group.

You mentioned you need a Flickr app to display your photos. I developed the application “My Flickr” available at http://myflickrapp.com/facebookapp for users to display their Flickr photos on their Facebook Page or profile!

-Kaleb

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We set up a Facebook page last December for my library at the American University in Cairo, Egypt: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Cairo-Egypt/AUC-Main-Library/23630215857

We have 473 fans at the latest count (just shy of 10% of our enrollment). I’d love to say it’s because of what we’re doing with the page, but the truth is that it has far more to do with how our students (mostly Egyptian, middle and upper middle class Cairenes) use Facebook. They’re excited to see anything local on Facebook, since so much of it is US-centric. American students just don’t seem as jazzed about library pages on Facebook.

We set up a Facebook page last December for my library at the American University in Cairo, Egypt: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Cairo-Egypt/AUC-Main-Library/23630215857

We have 473 fans at the latest count (just shy of 10% of our enrollment). I’d love to say it’s because of what we’re doing with the page, but the truth is that it has far more to do with how our students (mostly Egyptian, middle and upper middle class Cairenes) use Facebook. They’re excited to see anything local on Facebook, since so much of it is US-centric. American students just don’t seem as jazzed about library pages on Facebook.

Facebook Pages proves that people want and need something where you can post information, pictures, and links to friends and other resources online. You know, someone should create something like that and call it something like…oh, I know: The World Wide Web.

Facebook Pages proves that people want and need something where you can post information, pictures, and links to friends and other resources online. You know, someone should create something like that and call it something like…oh, I know: The World Wide Web.

I think the facebook pages are just little products from facebook to sell advertising. But I just found this great plugin that let facebook users login to your blog and manage information like comments: http://www.sociable.es/

I just make a facebook page for my blog. I just put there some good links for the community:http://www.facebook.com/pages/inerxia/37617095543

The good thing is that every time a user become a fan, that appears in the feed of the profile of this user and the page start to get attention. Sorry for tha crap english and thanks for this post.

I think the facebook pages are just little products from facebook to sell advertising. But I just found this great plugin that let facebook users login to your blog and manage information like comments: http://www.sociable.es/

I just make a facebook page for my blog. I just put there some good links for the community:http://www.facebook.com/pages/inerxia/37617095543

The good thing is that every time a user become a fan, that appears in the feed of the profile of this user and the page start to get attention. Sorry for tha crap english and thanks for this post.

In answer to Sara Scheib comment above, might I suggest “My Stuff”, SEE
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2352149512&b=&ref=pd_r

I had the same problem as Sara, and ‘My Stuff’ has worked as a good substitute. SEE
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin/Dublin-City-Public-Libraries/9761761153

cheers!
Ed

In answer to Sara Scheib comment above, might I suggest “My Stuff”, SEE
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2352149512&b=&ref=pd_r

I had the same problem as Sara, and ‘My Stuff’ has worked as a good substitute. SEE
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin/Dublin-City-Public-Libraries/9761761153

cheers!
Ed

I recently discussed this on my own blog and whether facebook is of any help to libraries.

See below:-
http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2008/11/facebook-in-libraries-can-it-ever.html

Sorry for blatant self advertising. Could be worst, I could make you all my facebook friends

I recently discussed this on my own blog and whether facebook is of any help to libraries.

See below:-
http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2008/11/facebook-in-libraries-can-it-ever.html

Sorry for blatant self advertising. Could be worst, I could make you all my facebook friends

I think Facebook pages are a great place to feature your business or freelance venture. I wrote about some tips regarding fans, advertising, online portfolios in this article: http://www.officerepo.com/?p=28

I think Facebook pages are a great place to feature your business or freelance venture. I wrote about some tips regarding fans, advertising, online portfolios in this article: http://www.officerepo.com/?p=28

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Group pages do NOT offer enough functionality and FB PAges DO, including the great option to actually use a kind of Static FaceBook MarkupLanguage (FBML). This looks pretty easy and allows one to embed widgets of all kinds to show web content
This FBML application AND the Extended Info Application can add a lot of functionality you might be loking for.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Alliance-Virtual-Library/35213905582
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Groningen/Central-Medical-Library-University-Medical-Center-Groningen/14202168386?ref=ts

Group pages do NOT offer enough functionality and FB PAges DO, including the great option to actually use a kind of Static FaceBook MarkupLanguage (FBML). This looks pretty easy and allows one to embed widgets of all kinds to show web content
This FBML application AND the Extended Info Application can add a lot of functionality you might be loking for.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Alliance-Virtual-Library/35213905582
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Groningen/Central-Medical-Library-University-Medical-Center-Groningen/14202168386?ref=ts

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It looks like your page doesn’t render properly in IE 6.

It looks like your page doesn’t render properly in IE 6.

Ken – on the TSCPL Facebook Page? Yep – looks like it’s messed up. That’s a Facebook issue – not much I can do abut that.

Ken – on the TSCPL Facebook Page? Yep – looks like it’s messed up. That’s a Facebook issue – not much I can do abut that.

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I was going to ask if you’ve had any luck with the Flickr integration to a Facebook Fan Page as that is something we (me) want to get working at the non-profit I work for.

I saw Kaleb’s link so I’ll check this out. I got Flickr integration working to my personal page/profile Flickr has a feature for that now.

I was going to ask if you’ve had any luck with the Flickr integration to a Facebook Fan Page as that is something we (me) want to get working at the non-profit I work for.

I saw Kaleb’s link so I’ll check this out. I got Flickr integration working to my personal page/profile Flickr has a feature for that now.

I just launched our Facebook page in late June. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Santa-Rosa-CA/Sonoma-County-Library/94921883722
Mainly it contains library hours and our news feed.

One thing I would love to add would be a Facebook version of the WordPress “Today at the Library” plugin I made for our news blog. On the blog, the left sidebar displays today’s events by doing a query of our calendar database.
http://sonomalibrary.org/news/

I can’t reach the top of my to-do pile either, though.

I just launched our Facebook page in late June. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Santa-Rosa-CA/Sonoma-County-Library/94921883722
Mainly it contains library hours and our news feed.

One thing I would love to add would be a Facebook version of the WordPress “Today at the Library” plugin I made for our news blog. On the blog, the left sidebar displays today’s events by doing a query of our calendar database.
http://sonomalibrary.org/news/

I can’t reach the top of my to-do pile either, though.

Guus says (via email):

To Genny Engel (and others):
You can add the Today at the Library plugin to your page by using the application FBML, and just copy & pasting the source code in there. I have just tried it at one of my boxes in my library page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Groningen/Central-Medical-Library-University-Medical-Center-Groningen/14202168386#/pages/Groningen/Central-Medical-Library-University-Medical-Center-Groningen/14202168386?v=box_3
Have a look at your plugin at that page.

Guus says (via email):

To Genny Engel (and others):
You can add the Today at the Library plugin to your page by using the application FBML, and just copy & pasting the source code in there. I have just tried it at one of my boxes in my library page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Groningen/Central-Medical-Library-University-Medical-Center-Groningen/14202168386#/pages/Groningen/Central-Medical-Library-University-Medical-Center-Groningen/14202168386?v=box_3
Have a look at your plugin at that page.

This is helpful, thanks!

This is helpful, thanks!

Yes, it is helpful for our library too.

It would be nice to be able to put music on my facebook page.

I started our library facebook page just over a year ago – we now have almost 600 fans! I post library news and events. I also post our newsletter stories as notes and add lots of photos. I always try to include a link back to our website – that's where all the information's at. The facebook is more of a social, chatty way to interact with our patrons. I plan on starting a facebook book group soon but haven't decided yet on how to actually do that – and what format that will take.
I started a MySpace and Twitter accounts at the same time as well.
MySpace isn't doing so well so I admit I don't pay too much attention to it anymore – mostly I just post our newsletter stories to the blog. After a year we only have 31 friends.
Twitter is coming along nicely with 281, I mostly tweet library events, RT some library related articles, etc. I interact with our followers by answering questions they may have.
We plan on doing more with YouTube in the near future.
We have links to our social media sites on our homepage of our website. http://www.rochesterpubliclibrary.org

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Our library is in the process of creating a facebook page, however, there are some reservations about the ads that automatically feed to your page. Do you know if there is a way to remove those from your page or to make sure that ads that go up are appropriate contentwise? Have you ever had any complaints from co-workers or fans about the ads?

Hi! You can't really remove the ads, but you can remove a single one, which helps the Facebook ad engine know what's appropriate and not for your page.

But no – you're stuck with the ads.

We have developed a Facebook application for libraries. First, it lets you get away from the generic tabs like Boxes and Info and use tabs like Catalog, New Books, Calendar etc. Second, it lets you create sub-tabs (buttons) so, for example, under New Books, you could have buttons for Young Adult, Large Print, Audio, Non Fiction, etc. Third, it lets you display RSS feeds, Twitter, portions of existing web pages and all of this content is dynamically updated each time a visitor views it, meaning you can use all of your existing content on Facebook, update it in one place and have it updated automatically on Facebook. For more information visit:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/path_view.cfm?...

The link to the documentation for Library Features for Facebook is not working in my comment. Here it is again:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/users/libsampl...

My understanding is you cannot remove ads from a Profile page. However, if you use a Business Page instead of a Profile page, your visitors will not see any ads and they do not have to have a facebook account to see the page which they do if you are using a Profile page. Strangely, if you are the owner of the Business page, you will see ads, but not your visitors, even if they are logged into facebook. For more about Profile pages and Business pages go to:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/users/libsampl...

We have developed a Facebook application for libraries. First, it lets you get away from the generic tabs like Boxes and Info and use tabs like Catalog, New Books, Calendar etc. Second, it lets you create sub-tabs (buttons) so, for example, under New Books, you could have buttons for Young Adult, Large Print, Audio, Non Fiction, etc. Third, it lets you display RSS feeds, Twitter, portions of existing web pages and all of this content is dynamically updated each time a visitor views it, meaning you can use all of your existing content on Facebook, update it in one place and have it updated automatically on Facebook. For more information visit:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/path_view.cfm?...

The link to the documentation for Library Features for Facebook is not working in my comment. Here it is again:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/users/libsampl...

My understanding is you cannot remove ads from a Profile page. However, if you use a Business Page instead of a Profile page, your visitors will not see any ads and they do not have to have a facebook account to see the page which they do if you are using a Profile page. Strangely, if you are the owner of the Business page, you will see ads, but not your visitors, even if they are logged into facebook. For more about Profile pages and Business pages go to:
http://www.supportlibrary.com/nl/users/libsampl...