#gathercreateshare: How Research Libraries Use Pinterest

Abstract

This work investigates social curating activities on the website Pinterest and relates them to the librarian's traditional role of curating information. Pinterest is a social curation site that combines features of gathering, creating, and sharing with the information management characteristics of successful data curation. Libraries have begun to think about pushing services into social networking sites and adding social networking features to their own services. This study evaluates the webpages of Association of Research Libraries member libraries for presence and use of Pinterest, and suggests ways research and academic libraries can use Pinterest to support their patrons.

Authors Using Social Media: Layers of Identity and the Online Author Community

“…Several also used Pinterest as a kind of database to store useful snippets of information for planned publications, such as the correct clothing for historical novels. There is growing use of Pinterest as a professional tool, often by libraries [36], and in teaching [37] this novel platform is used both personally and professionally. Exploring the use of these platforms in more detail, the following charts (Figs.…”