Social networking and Libraries-Sophia Valdivia

 Polish university libraries social networking services during the COVID-19 pandemic spring term lockdown

    Libraries social networking have become very essential, especially during the COVID-19 lockdown. The sole purpose of this article is to share how 18 Polish university libraries engange with their users on social media. They used social media as a way to promote their library as well as to engange with their users and other libraries on the internet. 

Social apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, etc. are social networking tools that librarians use commonly. 

Because of the growing popularity and use of social media, libraries have created IT solutions to implement better services for their users. It also caters to our younger generations to have better navigation in libraries. The method that many Polish universities used was Fanpage Karma tool. They used this tool to help them with collecting data about social networking sites, such as comments, likes and posts. It can be used as a montoring tool. It also help organize the information it collects using tags. 

Citation: Gmiterek, Grzegorz. “Polish University Libraries Social Networking Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic Spring Term Lockdown.” Redirecting, May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102331.