Collected Item: “Boston Public Library, Shelf Service Live”
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Shelf Service Live
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Social media post
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
Twitter post from the Boston Public Library, as part of their campaign to promote adult summer reading. Post announces that for the day (June 26th), librarians will be responding on twitter to people asking for book recommendations. Because libraries are no longer able to operate out of their physical spaces, librarians have had to seek new ways to interact with their publics and fulfill their traditional duties. Posts like this emphasize new approaches that librarians are taking, as well as the increased role of social media in interactions between libraries and the public.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
GREATER BOSTON, libraries, social media
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200626181552/https://twitter.com/BPLBoston/status/1276576893681258498
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Boston Public Library
Give this story a date.
2020-06-26