Collection Development: Twitter, Tweets and Bibliography Twitter presents a bibliographic challenge for Librarians since the volume of tweets (and other social media) is immense and any archive represents only a sliver of the total content. of course, collection development is rarely about collecting everything on a subject, but rather the best or most useful resources. […]
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Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress
[Sample Record] Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress. District of Columbia: Library of Congress, January 4, 2013. An element of our mission at the Library of Congress is to collect the story of America and to acquire collections that will have research value. So when the Library had the opportunity to […]
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[Sample Record] The Library and Twitter: An FAQ. District of Columbia: Library of Congress, April 28, 2010. Twitter’s gift (link is PDF) [https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2010/04/LOC-Twitter.pdf] to the Library of Congress of its entire archive of public tweets, announced two weeks ago today, sure has stoked the public’s interest. (Also included as addenda to the previous link were […]
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[Sample Record] How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive. District of Columbia: Library of Congress, April 14, 2010. Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, […]
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