Social network tips

We like an idea of sharing some interesting focusing on specific groups of people and active having the same interests and jobs and like to suppose that these professional can help people from different towns and countries but having the same careers to meet and discuss common problems and meet new friends having the same interests.

This time we decided to focus on such interesting professions as librarian and gathered in this article the most interesting for our point of view Facebook applications which may be very helpful for all people related somehow to this profession and who like an idea of communications with people of the similar interests within Facebook social network:

Books iRead

Having more than 200 thousand of registered this helpful application turns to be the most popular application for book reading fans and active social users on Facebook. iRead allows to do lots of things like sharing your own virtual bookshelf with all your FB friends and show them e the titles of books you are currently reading and those titles of books you are just going to read. Besides you can also form list of books you have read few years and those books which you will never going to read due to some personal reasons you can point out if you want.

Rating book titles and spotlighting your favorite book reviews you have read or maybe written by yourself are also included. This is very helpful application for all those people on Facebook who can’t imagine their lifestyles without reading interesting books and librarians in particular. Fully customizable setting will let you set this app as you like and discuss your favorite books with all your Facebook friends who have joined this application as well.

Librarian

This is a great online Facebook librarian service allows to check out through the links to books, some scholarly sources and even reference resources which this community can add to this page and then vote and rate every single book just like in the previous book app on Facebook. Add to this a great option known as “Ask a Librarian” where you can actually ask for a professional advice because many librarians find this app very cool and displaying their interests and job completely.

UIUC Library catalog

Having this app installed on your Facebook profile you may get an access to the huge library catalogue of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or even make few requests and get a live assistance from a librarian working over there. Ti service is great for many people – students, teachers, librarians and all those who are interested in reading good books and seeks for a good app allowing gaining an access to the rare and interesting literature masterpieces.

JStor

Stands for a very popular scholarly journal archive which has created a sort of search app allowing accessing to its enormous collection of full-text books and literature concerning mostly social science field. This app supports a remote login access and requires from you being a member of the website of this archive in order to use this app on your Facebook page.