eSociety: Discovering Humanity in the Digital

Library websites are now essential for patrons and staff alike to create community and contribute to library culture. One particular kind of website that our local library system utilizes is the Bibliocommons site. This is a new breed of website designed with libraries in mind, which makes community creation and interaction within a library system, and with other library systems, more accessible in the digital arena. What is Bibliocommons anyway? Bibliocommons is essentially a webiste-building tool (much like Wix or SquareSpace) that is marketed to public library systems. This website builder offers various applications and options for online community building. I'll be analyzing the Pima County Public Library's site created with Bibliocommons, but there are many other libraries that have Bibliocommons sites. Power to the patrons! This community interaction has many levels and forms on the patron level. The building block that is key in community interaction ...

Open source, no attribution from memegenerator.com As a public library employee with aspirations of becoming a social media librarian one day, I am interested in an oddly specific subset of digital culture that isn't discussed often in the digital or public sphere. Each week, I will strive to uncover new voices in this conversation, provide personal insights on the diversity contained within this seemingly minuscule area of digital culture, and discuss the potential impacts of libraries on social media both for libraries and the communities they serve. The Evolving Library "Wait, libraries are still a thing? I thought they would be all obsolete by now, since the Internet's where everyone gets their information!" I hear this (or some iteration) pretty much every time I tell someone that I want to be a librarian, and I've gotten pretty excellent at honing the perfect response. So to answer your question if you're one of the confused, or maybe vali...