Mobile Web 2.0 Reference for the Underfunded and

Lonely Library

Tweet-a-Librarian

October 21, 2010 Sonnet Ireland and Faith SimmonsLOUIS Users Conference Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

supplement

traditional reference

increase awareness of

library resources

mobile reference

using existing

technology

goals for twitter and

text message reference

“Twitter is an information network made up of 140-character messages called Tweets.”-Twitter 101

-communication-reader-networking-pop culture-activism

SCREEN SHOTS-Website features-Celebrities and verified accounts.

beyond twitter.com

tweetdeckbit.lyfoursquarefacebook

twitter.com/ekl_library

#unolib