If you haven't seen the data filled, link rich Facebook page that the National Library of Singapore offers, we think it's worth a look both to see the good work going on in Singapore but also as a possible idea generator for your library/info center or maybe even a personal page you maintain.
Checking your library account on Facebook
Perform service transactions such as renewing and reserving library items on Facebook
Recommend books to your friends...and more!
Great idea but it would be a tough call until for us given Facebook's continuing privacy issues.
All of the sections look great.
Ask a Librarian
E-mail a question. On the right side of page you can see a list of the newest questions, a way to save favorite or useful question and answer sets.
New Materials
Calendar
Search or browse upcoming events at various libraries
Blogs
All of the library/librarian produced blogs in a single location.
Recommendations
Make them, share them, read suggestions from your friends.
Finally, every National Library of Singapore Facebook page includes a simple search box (upper right) to search the NLB Catalogue.
What's really interesting is that brief results appear on a Facebook page. In other words, you don't leave the Facebook site until your ready for more info and/or get location info, etc.
You can also reserve books from the Facebook page.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
