Twitter and Libraries

I already follow Alexander Turnbull and National Library on Twitter. They send out Tweets as teasers:– a recent tweet from National Library states:

Megaphones and midget cars. This looks serious http://bit.ly/4yTi6k

At the digital conference, they said they try not to make it sound too much like a marketing communication. They want to intrigue people and draw them in, and use bit.ly to truncate URLs.

AT's recent tweet was:

For starters : H1N1. Honey, what do you think of the Ebola ? http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html

Access Science retweeted LISNews tweet:

LISNews: Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution http://lisnews.org/node/35091

I enjoyed that article, and like the title "Web Librarian".

Some of the tweets from others are boring though. And some tweets look more like personal communications than professional ones.

I think it would be great to start doing one for ours:– library events, new books, recommended books etc.

Come wiggle and sing, @ Wriggle and Rhyme http://bit.ly/8K5NLC

A separate Twitter account for Local History Online would be good too.

Can you tell us more about this photo? http://bit.ly/8Ihfv0