Using social media to build library communities

Scott W. H. Young, Doralyn Rossmann

Using Social Media to Build Library Communities: A LITA Guide is a community-building action manual for practitioners across the profession. By bringing together an array of perspectives to explore community building through social media, this book serves as a go-to resource for professionals who want to tak e social media beyond marketing and promotion to build an inclusive and engaged community of library users. Each chapter contains clear expectations of important topics for building communities through social media, and readers will come away with cohesive approaches for their own libraries. Using Social Media to Build Library Communities demonstrates that an energetic and committed community exists to help and guide fellow community builders. -- from back cover.