Follow a Library Day - 1 October 2011

Today I learnt that tomorrow (1 October 2011)  is Follow a Library Day on Twitter.

The Follow a Library initiative encourages as many people as possible to tweet about their favourite library (and presumably also to follow this library) in order to generate an "enormous amount of positive attention to this great industry".*

On Follow a Library Day you are encouraged tweet your favourite book followed by the hashtags #followalibrary and #myfavouritebook

* http://followalibrary.blogspot.com/

http://www.twitter.com/followalibrary

More and More Researchers are Visiting Libraries

Today I learnt that, contrary to popular belief, researchers still use libraries. New figures released by Research Libraries UK (RLUK) show that there was a 10% increase in visits to its 23 UK university member libraries from the previous year. There were 35 million visits, which is the highest number since records began. The figures represent 2009/10 which is the latest year for which full data are available. RLUK is a consortium of 30 research organizations in the UK and Ireland, which includes the three UK national libraries. Thank you CILIP Weekly Information World for bringing this to my attention.

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/uk-research-libraries-busier-ever

http://www.cilip.org.uk/