Facebook Adventures

I've been playing with Facebook some this week.

Here are a couple of preliminary successes:

• I "friended" some of the students who work here--a couple have graciously accepted!


• I formed a group called "Workers at WU Libraries." So far, we have five members including one of the student workers. And we had a goofy time this morning taking some photos, so our group profile includes photos of library workers enjoying their jobs!
  

Here are a couple of early-stage experiments:

• I formed a group called "Writing 1 Support" for current Writing 1 students and anyone willing to offer them aid and comfort--former students, teachers, librarians. This is the freshmen class where librarians provide one-shot instruction sessions.


• I formed a group called "Eyes on the Prize fans." Those of you over thirty or so probably remember the impact of this amazing documentary series about the Civil Rights movement that was shown on PBS in the late 80s and early 90s. It's being shown for the first time since 1993 this fall. The filmmaker of Eyes on the Prize was Henry Hampton and Wash U has his archives--so this is a pretty big event for us.

So far, I'm the only member of those two groups. I'm sure I could get some more librarians to join, but I'd really like to get some students to join before the whole place looks like it has been taken over by adults. I imagine I'll be able to get some help along those lines from some of my new student worker friends.

My partner in crime for the photo spree this morning was my co-worker Gretchen who supervises the student workers in Circulation. Her interest in this project is recruitment of student workers. If students see on Facebook that we're a fun crowd, maybe we will have a bigger pool of applicants this fall.     #

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