Expanding beyond our library walls: Building an active online community through facebook

Journal of Web Librarianship

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-128

  Ganster, Ligaya ^a   Schumacher, Bridget ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Facebook Pages; Libraries and Facebook; Marketing; Outreach; Social networking; Social software; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449717685     PISSN: 19322909     EISSN: 19322917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19322900902820929     Document Type: Article

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