- Collection:
- AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library Staff Publications
- Title:
- Using Blogs in the Library to Reach Diverse and Non-Traditional Student Groups, 2014
- Creator:
- Decker, Emy Nelson
Tomlinson, Monya - Date of Original:
- 2014
- Subject:
- Library science
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- While there is no dearth of information about the uses of a blog as a Web 2.0 tool in the library, there is very little information about the ways in which a blog can be used to reach diverse and non-traditional groups. This paper explores blog topics and strategies that will help to engage users from diverse populations. It also explains ways in which librarians might frame their library blogs to be more inclusive of their entire community. Blogs can serve as excellent marketing tools for communicating resources, services, and events, but in featuring posts that include various populations, more users might become readers of the blog and may even develop an appreciation for the diversity surrounding them. The blog can then serve as a solid model for communicating and appreciating diversity. If their true power is harnessed, library blogs can reach larger groups and promote a more inclusive environment for all.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.rwwlpub:0002
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
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