A very brief post following up on yesterday’s post, just to document a few ups and downs in the process of developing a facebook page for my library…
Ups:
- Lots of good UK and North American examples of library facebook pages to take inspiration from
- Plenty of freely available widgets to turn to the library’s advantage such as a virtual bookshelf (showing new acquisitions – this is even RSS fed), RSS feed display tools, as well as COPAC, WorldCat and JSTOR search widgets
- The potential to adapt functions that will be familiar to most facebook users in novel ways (e.g. using a photo album with annotated comments as a virtual library tour and guide to resources)
Downs:
- The inability to use some widgets on developer pages – this is very annoying!
- The fact that I have to develop the page through my own personal account
- My general paranoia about security and sharing my own details with widget developers… but that’s my problem not facebook’s
I’m looking forward to carrying on working on this tomorrow 
