Social Networking Bibliography


Articles

Balas, Janet L. “Social Networks and the Library Community,” Computers in Libraries, v. 28, #4, 2008, p. 40.

Landis, Cliff. “Social Networking Sites: Getting Friendly With Our Users,” College & Research Libraries News, v. 68, #11, 2007, p. 709.

Lankes, R. David, et al. “Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation,” Information Technology and Libraries, v. 26, #4, 2007, p. 17.

Maxymuk, John. “Whose Space?” The Bottom Line, v. 20, #2, 2007, p. 97.

Topper, Elisa F. “Social Networking in Libraries,” New Library World, v. 108, #7/8, 2007, p. 378.


Monographs

Bruns, Axel. Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.

Chatfield, T. Brian. The Myspace.com Handbook; The Complete Guide for Members and Parents. Atlantic Publishing Company, 2008.

Farkas, Meredith G. Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online. Information Today, Inc., 2007.

Mayank, Sharma. Elgg Social Networking. Packt Publishing, 2008.


Blogs

Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services. A blog by Gerry McKiernan of Iowa State University ranging over all aspects of social networks and there use in libraries. Available at: http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/.

walking paper. Aaron Schmidt’s blog ranges over a wide variety of library topics, but social networking and other web 2.0 developments are central to his posts. Available at: www.walkingpaper.org.

Information Wants To Be Free. A library and technology blog maintained by Meredith Farkas, author of Social Software in Libraries. The blog covers a wide variety of topics, but social networks and networking are one of the most common topics. Available at: http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php


Websites

General:

• http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/
• http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/08/digging_deeperyour_guide_to_so_1.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Elgg: http://elgg.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about.php

MySpace:

• http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.aboutus
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace

Digital Resources:

General: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html

Library: http://sns.mlanet.org/blog

Facebook:

• http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/FacebookInTheCrowd.ppt
• http://www.iastate.edu/Inside/2006/0224/facebook.shtml