My favorite of the Facebook apps for librarians were Books iRead and the UIUC Library Catalog. I like Books iRead because it is a nice way to keep track of what you've been reading in a place that you can access from almost anywhere. If you are stumped on a readers' advisory question, you could open up your facebook page and remind yourself of all the books you can't remember, and then you could look at what all your librarian friends are reading as well.
I thought that the UIUC Library Catalog was a nice feature too. It brings the library customers one step closer to the catalog and the databases. One of the big problems I have with teaching people about the databases is that you have to click on like 500 links just to get into them. Any way to make that process shorter would be a good thing.
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