The University of British Columbia library is utilising twitter in an innovative way. By using what it calls a robot (and automated service written in some form of programing language) it exports all it's new acquisitions from its LMS to twitter:
http://twitter.com/ubcnewbooks
Student and Staff who are signed up to twitter can then 'follow' the 'UBC new books' announcements and get regular notices of titles purchased by the library. Not only this, but each post has a link to the title within the OPAC that drives users back to the library's systems. This is a great example of a library2.0 technology that utilises existing systems, with little development time, and zero costs.
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