nyulocal:

theycallme-rach:

The Empire State Building’s tower lights will be purple and white tonight to honor New York University’s 2012 Commencement. Congratulations to this year’s graduates!

ADORBS. Congrats to all of this year’s graduates. 

NYU!

nypl:

Chowder channels his inner Patience, while researching recipes for Roast Turkey. This little cat resides with one of our colleagues here at the Library, and is a perfect representative of a new project. 

Share a pic of your own little lion striking their best library pose - Patience and Fortitude style - and we’ll  post it on our Pinterest board, “Little Lions“…  After all, there’s no reason why our pets shouldn’t show their support for the Library as well! 

(Don’t forget to tag your picture “Little Lion”, so we can find it!)

Now that the name-grabbing headline part is done… 

I wanted to take a look at how university presses are taking advantage of the new Facebook timeline to tell their “brand story” as is so often said in endless tech weeks with panel discussions on Facebook marketing. 

I’m biased, so I decided to go the bean-counting route: what is their cover photo, how many likes, what are their timeline apps (note: standard is the “Likes” counter and “Photos”), how often do they update/week, what is their engagement totals for the week (26 March - 1 April), and whether they are using the “founding” and “milestones” options in the new Facebook timeline. 

I also didn’t have much time this evening so I did the four I could think of with the most likes. 

Harvard University Press
Cover Photo: Book cover, The Short American Century
Likes: 20,935
Apps: Videos, Take our Survey, Events
Updates over last week: 14
Engagement over last week:

• Likes: 267
• Comments: 6
• Shares: 52

Joined Facebook: May 17, 2008 
Founded: —-
Milestones: None

The MIT Press
Cover Photo: Books display, Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Likes: 16,146
Apps: Map, Events, Extended Info, Authors on FB
Updates over last week: 14
Engagement over last week:

• Likes: 82
• Comments: 7
• Shares: 24

Joined Facebook: November 19, 2007
Founded: 1962
Milestones: None 

Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
Cover Photo: OUP Building in Oxford
Likes: 8,360
Apps: Events, YouTube, Blog, Twitter
Updates over last week: 10
Engagement over last week:

• Likes: 74
• Comments: 3
• Shares: 3

Joined Facebook: February 6, 2011
Founded: 1478
Milestones: 28 milestones, 16 with an accompanying visual

Yale University Press
Cover Photo: None
Likes: 6,227
Apps: Twitter, Notes
Updates over last week: 13
Engagement over last week:

• Likes: 57
• Comments: 3
• Shares: 8

Joined Facebook: June 30, 2009
Founded: 1908
Milestones: None

I’m surprised how few university presses are taking advantage of the timeline to highlight notable events in their press history. 

A list of other university presses to check out on Facebook: 

1. Cambridge University Press
2. Columbia University Press
3. Duke University Press
4. Indiana University Press
5. Johns Hopkins University Press
6. NYU Press
7. Princeton University Press
8. Stanford University Press
9. Temple University Press
10. University of Chicago Press
11. UC Press
12. UNC Press

Did I miss anyone? Is there something I should be looking at more closely?

nouvellabooks:

For those looking to laugh out loud.

My second attempt at finding book publishers on Google Plus and to figure out what they’re doing. 

1. Cambridge University Press

• Cambridge University Press Education
• Cambridge University Press Education AUS_NZ
• Cambridge University Press ELT
• Cambridge University Press Library Marketing Group

1. CUA Press
2. Diamond Mountain University Press
3. Duke University Press
4. Indiana University Press
5. McGill-Queen’s University Press
6. Mercer University Press
7. MIT Press
8. Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
9. Penn State Press
10. Princeton University Press
11. University of California Press
12. University of North Carolina Press
13. University of Oklahoma Press
14. University Press of New England
15. Victoria University Press
16. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Update: I realized I should include a few non-university affliated academic publishers too. 

1. Ashgate Publishing
2. Palgrave Macmillan
3. Pearson

• Pearson North America

1. Routledge Books

• Routledge Mental Health

Who’d I miss?

I’m resisting signing up for Pinterest because I realized I reached my social media account limit (my brain simply can’t cope with anything else at the moment). So I thought the best course of action would be to have other people do the work for me. 

1. Book Fashion
2. Book Home Décor
3. Book Food
4. Books & Cats
5. Books & Dogs
6. Books & Other Pets
7. Books in Famous Places
8. Book Shelves
9. Book Cases
10. Beautiful Libraries
11. Beautiful Bookstores
12. Library Cats
13. Bookstore Cats
14. Library Dogs
15. Bookstore Dogs
16. Library Other Pets
17. Bookstore Other Pets
18. Famous People’s Libraries
19. Writers in Famous Places
20. Writers & Cats
21. Writers & Dogs
22. Writers & Other Pets
23. Publisher Colophons / Logos
24. Publisher Offices
25. Same Book, Multiple Covers (languages, editions)
26. Fun with Fonts
27. Notable internal book designs
28. Famous people reading
29. Famous art depicting people reading
30. Words in Fashion
31. Words in Home Décor
32. Words in Food
33. Etymology of a word
34. Book posters
35. Classic Books
36. Classic Books of ___
37. Reading List for ___
38. Books v. Movie/TV/Play Adapatations
39. Movies/TV Shows v. Book Adaptations
40. Different Visions of a Famous Literary Character (eg. Sherlock Holmes)
41. Book Trailers for {genre}

What’d I miss?

shakeandco:

“A book has made me so angry I’ve thrown it against a wall.”

YES.

Not admitting to anything, but all true

fsgbooks:

mythologyofblue:

 Corrected page proofs of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal

[from Treasures of the national library of France - The European Library - v1.5]

(ramage)

Good to know even the best had to go through proofs.

vikingpenguinbooks:

thepenguinpress:

Yes, but does YOUR office have an orange refrigerator full of Penguin Classics?

I love seeing this every morning when I come in as there’s nothing like a nice shock of orange to open your eyes in the morning, but I also always - foolishly - hope there will be ice cream as well. One day! Maybe?

This is weird and wonderful on so many levels.