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   These days social media has increasingly become the norm by which people communicate. It started with just friends and family contacting each other, but social media has quickly turned into a place where businesses can promote themselves with free advertising. Libraries are among these businesses that use websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to promote the programs and services offered at their facility.    To begin, Facebook is an "older" form of social media that some might view as outdated. As such, depending on your targeted age group, librarians might want to consider advertising and posting information on "newer" forms of social media; such as Twitter or Instagram. Facebook is the reliable form of information sharing platforms, that will target demographics from younger adults (age 30) to older adults (age 70). When I search on Facebook for school library programs , I come up with a variety of information. Links to school library Facebook pa...

For this post I am going to be writing about different blog cites that librarians can read and access for ideas in their own libraries. Also included in this post is the best feed reader that I prefer to read all these blogs on. https://feedly.com/i/discover   Let's start with feed readers. If you are anything like me, you're probably thinking,"what the heck is that?!" At least this was me before I began this blog post. Now, I feel fairly proficient on the matter, and let me just say, the only way I can really describe feed readers is that they are amazing, time-saving genies. Really, that's what they are. According to Vicky Volvovski, she writes that a feed reader, or RSS app..."accesses web feeds published by websites, letting you aggregate and curate content you care about. Instead of visiting multiple sites, just open your favorite RSS app to see all new content in a central source. " (Volvovski) In general, a feed reader is a place wher...