Comments on: why your OPAC won’t be on Facebook, for now http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:06:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Post #5 Is the Web 2.0 bubble about to burst? « Electric Bookshelf http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/comment-page-1/#comment-101326 Post #5 Is the Web 2.0 bubble about to burst? « Electric Bookshelf Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:20:04 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/#comment-101326 [...] Facebook is not all that friendly to libraries, either. The Facebook terms of conditions don’t allow users to imbed search apps, including catalog searches– the exact thing that libraries are trying to do. So, libraries can attract Facebook users, but not show anything useful. Librarian.net has some interesting, if cynical theories on the reasons behind the blocks. [...] [...] Facebook is not all that friendly to libraries, either. The Facebook terms of conditions don’t allow users to imbed search apps, including catalog searches– the exact thing that libraries are trying to do. So, libraries can attract Facebook users, but not show anything useful. Librarian.net has some interesting, if cynical theories on the reasons behind the blocks. [...]

]]> By: Starr Hoffman (geeky artist librarian) http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/comment-page-1/#comment-99058 Starr Hoffman (geeky artist librarian) Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:11:23 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/#comment-99058 In the meantime, you can link to your library's OPAC, comments forms, etc. by adding the Facebook Librarian application and customizing the widget in it: http://apps.facebook.com/fblibrarian/ Enjoy! In the meantime, you can link to your library’s OPAC, comments forms, etc. by adding the Facebook Librarian application and customizing the widget in it:
http://apps.facebook.com/fblibrarian/

Enjoy!

]]> By: University Update - YouTube - why your OPAC won’t be on Facebook, for now http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/comment-page-1/#comment-99038 University Update - YouTube - why your OPAC won’t be on Facebook, for now Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:01:03 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/#comment-99038 [...] Yahoo Link to Article youtube why your OPAC won’t be on Facebook, for now » Posted at librarian.net » on Thursday, July 05, 2007 Steve Lawson has some details about why library apps for Facebook aren’t being approved along with all the other applications that are being created ... for other sites like Flickr and YouTube and shift it to Facebook so they can serve you Facebook ads while View Entire Article » [...] [...] Yahoo Link to Article youtube why your OPAC won’t be on Facebook, for now » Posted at librarian.net » on Thursday, July 05, 2007 Steve Lawson has some details about why library apps for Facebook aren’t being approved along with all the other applications that are being created … for other sites like Flickr and YouTube and shift it to Facebook so they can serve you Facebook ads while View Entire Article » [...]

]]> By: Ken Varnum http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/comment-page-1/#comment-99033 Ken Varnum Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:53:10 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2079/why-your-opac-wont-be-on-facebook-for-now/#comment-99033 After several days of correspondence with a tech support person at Facebook, I got a satisfactory (to me) result for the University of Michigan library's Facebook application ( http://apps.facebook.com/mlibrary ). First I was told I was storing user information. When I emailed to correct this assertion, I was told that I was correct, but that my web search violated terms of service. So I explained that my interpretation was that a search of a closed, proprietary OPAC wasn't a web search. And Facebook agreed, publishing the application. Ironic that the OPAC's closed nature worked in my favor... After several days of correspondence with a tech support person at Facebook, I got a satisfactory (to me) result for the University of Michigan library’s Facebook application ( http://apps.facebook.com/mlibrary ). First I was told I was storing user information. When I emailed to correct this assertion, I was told that I was correct, but that my web search violated terms of service. So I explained that my interpretation was that a search of a closed, proprietary OPAC wasn’t a web search. And Facebook agreed, publishing the application. Ironic that the OPAC’s closed nature worked in my favor…

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