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University Presses on Pinterest

A straightforward title. 

1. Cambridge University Press ELT Digital
2. Cambridge University Press Library
3. Cambridge University Press Textbooks
4. Cornell University Press
5. Duke University Press
6. Harvard Press
7. Mercer University Press 
8. MIT Press
9. NYU Press
10. Oregon State University Press 
11. Sydney University Press 
12. University of Pennsylvania Press 
13. University of North Texas Press 
14. University of Texas Press 
15. University Press of Florida 
16. University Press of Kentucky 
17. University Press of Mississippi 

Honorable Mention: LSE Review of Books

As always, who’d I miss? Who do you think is using it most effectively? (I’m leaning towards LSE Review of Books who is not a university press)

And now for my useless commentary:

I’m a little worried that everyone signs up for the next big thing without figuring out how to use it effectively. Ten pins in the initial burst of enthusiasm and then nothing. Remember that people are using Pinterest to drive traffic to their website where they can capture customer information or turn browsers into customers. Fight shiny-object-syndrome and use these tools effectively. 

And there’s a fairly strong university library presence on Pinterest (and judging by how my alma mater is handling their welcome week, pictures of beautiful smiling freshmen and/or cupcakes instagramed is a major selling point). 

Some university libraries (I particularly like the archive /special collections images):

• Cambridge University Library
• IRC @ Ashland University Library
• Baylor Libraries
• University of Louisville Libraries
• Marywood University Library
• Victoria University of Wellington Library
• University of South Dakota Libraries
• University of Glasgow Library
• University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library
• Downs-Jones Library of Huston-Tillotson University
• University of Portsmouth Library
• Bond University Library and Computing
• Franco Library Alvernia University
• Bellevue University Library
• Rush Rhees Library
• Zahnow Library Reference
• Syracuse University Library
• University of Maryland Special Collections
• Harry A. Sprague Library
• Bluffton University Archives and Special Collections
• Digitization Services University of Virginia Library
• Children’s Literature Research Collections University of Minnesota

Honorable mention: New York Public Library (which has a research division and is awesome)

And from WIRED Campus “3 Ways College Libraries Are Exploring Pinterest“ and Wayne State University’s Ideas from The School of Library and Information Science “5 Ways to Use Pinterest At Your Academic Library”

Anything else to add?

University Presses on Tumblr

Thanks to the lovely Nick Moran at The Millions, bookish types have an already overloaded dashboard, but yet there could be more. Here’s a quick roundup of university presses on Tumblr, along with my rant about time management below. 

• Baylor University Press 
• Cambridge University Press Exhibitions
• Duke University Press 
• Georgetown University Press 
• McGill-Queens University Press 
• New York University Press*
• Northwestern University Press 
• University of Chicago Press 

If I’ve missed any please let me know. 

Here are the university press tags that pop-up on the first 10 pages of Google in the order they showed up in my results (“tumblr university press”). Remember that Tumblr has terrible SEO. These tags should be a good indicator of who should jump on board — or not. 

• Oxford University Press
• Northwestern University Press
• Harvard University Press
• Cambridge University Press
• Yale University Press
• Princeton University Press
• Columbia University Press
• Open University Press
• Wesleyan University Press
• Indiana University Press
• University of Chicago Press
• Miami University Press
• Canadian University Press
• University of Alabama Press
• University of Pittsburgh Press
• University of Massachusetts Press

Of course, MIT Press and the like didn’t show up in results because they don’t have university in the name, so be sure to check for them separately. 

And a couple other tags to follow:

• university press
• university presses

In addition to the usual book publishing subjects, universities and academic libraries are the obvious choice to follow and check out how they are using Tumblr. Any recommended actions for university presses on Tumblr?

Now for the rant you can ignore:

The horrible truth in social media is that not everyone uses it and most of those who do, don’t use it as frequently as the social-media-is-the-future crusaders like to believe. This means that it needs to be used strategically (and before you get angry about using business terminology, pretend you’re in Au Bonheur des Dames). Part of that strategy is not stretching yourself thin across many platforms and investing in none. For the university presses missing, I wonder whether Tumblr has reached the tipping point where it’s necessary to add another platform to the workload — or what they should shut down in exchange. 

*28 Aug: Adding NYU Press (*unbearable shame for missing alma mater’s press*)

University Presses on Google Plus

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?