The Social Media team has been hard at work engaging our users via Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Youtube.
A huge thank you to all of the team that makes our social media continue to grow, and be a vibrant community. The social media team promotes events that live on the Fondren Event calendar: http://library.rice.edu/calendar, as well as, other content that is of interest to our users.
Jeanette Sewell has joined the social media group. Jeanette will be working on a twitter bot with Ted the bookworm as the mascot. The bot will tweet general things such as search tips and links to LibGuides.
Norie Guthrie has taken on an expanded role for Twitter, monitoring any questions that need answered, and adding content as needed, Monday through Friday.
DeAndrea Smither has developed several themes for different days of the week for Snapchat. Our followers have really grown in this communication channel, enjoying the content provided.
DeAndrea displays her Snapchat schedule.
Additionally, we have new emergency social media communications procedures developed in collaboration with Kerry Keck. In the event of an emergency, such as a hurricane or tropical storm, Kerry Keck will be the primary contact person on Twitter and Facebook. She will post content from the university regarding the emergency. All previously scheduled posts will be put on pause, and will resume after the emergency has passed. We hope this will provide a clear source of information to our users about Fondren Library. We had a trial run this past week, and all seemed to work well!
Twitter (972 Followers) https://twitter.com/fondrenlibrary:
- Monday: Shannon Kipphut-Smith
- Tuesday: Debra Kolah
- Wednesday: Kathy Weimer
- Thursday: Scott Carlson
- Friday: Norie Guthrie
Facebook (1,235 Followers) https://www.facebook.com/ricefondren/:
- Monday: UX Monday (Amanda Thomas)
- Tuesday: Information Literacy/Reference Events (Joe Goetz)
- Wednesday: Summer posts: Light library information Fall: News from Fondren highlight (Melinda Flannery)
- Thursday: Archives/#TBT item from the Woodson Archive
- Friday: Rotates with focus on library humor/light reading (Jeanette Sewell)
Instagram (511 Followers): (Michael Chiles/DaVian Smith/Norie Guthrie) (3 x week) https://www.instagram.com/fondrenlibrary/
Snapchat: (DeAndrea Smither)
We have room on the Social Media group for you! If you would like to participate in Fondren Library’s social media efforts, email Debra Kolah (dkolah@rice.edu) and we will get you signed up!