International Twittering Libraries
Posted by lindyjb on March 18, 2009
Hi! Thanks for stopping by!
I have moved this blog to a hosted domain.
If you are looking for my list of international twittering libraries, check out the updated page here:
http://lindybrown.com/blog/2009/03/international-twittering-libraries/
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me!
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updated 9/28/2009
I have received quite a few comments from folks around the globe (which has been really GREAT, by the way!) Instead of incorporating them into the long, long list of Twittering Libraries, I decided to keep that list as U.S. only, for organizational sake. Hence below is a growing list of International Twittering Libraries.
If you have any recommendations and/or would like your library to be added to this list, please contact me. I’d love to hear from you!
- Bibliothèques de MTL (Montréal, Canada)
- Bibliothèque du Collège François-Xavier-Garneau (Québec,Canada)
- Bibliothèque Toulous (France)
- Bibliothèque_UGB (Saint-Louis, Senegal)
- Bracebridge Public Library (Ontario, Canada)
- Bradford Libraries (Bradford, UK)
- British Library – Business & IP Centre (London, England)
- British Library (London, England)
- Cambridge University Library (UK)
- Cheam Library (Cheam, Surrey)
- Deakin University Library (Australia)
- Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands)
- Dixie Grammar School (Market Bosworth, UK)
- Dublin Business School Library (Dublin, Ireland)
- Dunedin Public Libraries (New Zealand)
- Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Public Library (Dublin, Ireland)
- Dungannon Library (Ireland)
- Edmonton Public Library (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
- Feminist Library (London, England, UK)
- Fleetwood Libraries (Lancashire, UK)
- Guille-Allès Library (Guernsey, England, UK)
- Idea Store (England)
- Imperial College Science Library (London, England)
- International Library of New Zealand
- Flinders University (Australia)
- Joe Fortes Library (Vancouver, Canada)
- John Rylands University Library (Manchester, England, UK)
- Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Ontario, Canada)
- Lancashire Libraries (Lancashire, England)
- Leicestershire Libraries (UK)
- McGill University Library (Montreal, Canada)
- McMaster University (Canada)
- Medicine Hat Public Library (Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada)
- Metropolitan University Leeds Met Library (UK)
- Newcastle University, UK arts and humanities liaison team
- Open University Library, Milton Keyens (UK)
- Pelham Library (Ontario, Canada)
- Plymouth Libraries (UK)
- Red Dear Public Library (Alberta, Canada)
- Sheffield Libraries
- Sprowston Library (Norwich, England)
- State Library of South Australia
- St. John’s Nottingham Library (UK)
- The Itinerant Poetry Library (traveling the world–”anywhere I can get to”)
- University College of Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
- University College London Science Library
- University of Glamorgan (Wales, UK)
- University of London Birkbeck Library (UK)
- Universtities at Medway Drill Hall Library (UK)
- University of Notre Dame (London, UK)
- University of Oxford Bodleian Law Library (UK)
- University of Portsmouth Library (UK)
- University of Stavanger (Stavanger, Norway)
- University of Sussex (Falmer, East Sussex, UK)
- University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica)
- Vienna University Library (Austria)
- Wellcome Library (London, England, UK)
- West D’tonshire Libraries (Dunbartonshire, Scotland)
- Westminister Library (Central London, UK)
- Yale College Bersham Road LRC (Wrexham, Wales, UK)




Libraries on Twitter (updated list) « Circulation said
[...] response to several comments about International Libraries that twitter, I created a new list in a separate post, for organizational [...]
Arnold Digital » Blog Archive » Libraries Using Twitter said
[...] Anyway, if you’re into Twitter and you would like to know which libraries you can possibly follow, here is the list of U.S. libraries using Twitter, and here is the list of International Libraries. [...]
PK said
Hi,
interesting posts .
I mention :
http://twitter.com/biblio_tlse
cf :
http://bibliotheque20.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/qui-twitte-en-bibliotheques/
Twitter en bibliothèuqes « Des Bibliothèques 2.0 said
[...] bib hors US qui twittent [...]
chriskeene said
Here are a few more libraries:
Lancashire Libraries lancspublib
Bodleian Law Library thelawbod
Portsmouth Uni Lib UoPlibrary
StJohnsNottm
Leics Libraries leicslibraries
LeedsMetLibrary
Cambridge UL theul
John Rylands Uni Lib jrul
BirkbeckLibrary
BershamRdLRC
twitter usernames are on the right. I think most are from the UK.
Chris.
lindyjb said
This is awesome! Thanks Chris!
-Lindy
Les Bibliothécaires à la page said
[...] alors ? Me direz-vous…De nombreuses bibliothèques américaines et ailleurs dans le monde se sont créées un compte Twitter afin de diffuser leur grandes et petites nouvelles. Un [...]
Official Library Twitter accounts- what factors are correlated with number of followers? | Musings about librarianship said
[...] representative the list is. As mentioned here ,the list began from self-reported cases from here , here and here . I was somewhat concerned that this list has an inherent bias in listing mature accounts, [...]
Utiliser Twitter pour l’education | Edoboard said
[...] trouverez ici une liste des bibliothèques qui tweet aux usa, ainsi qu’à l’international (mentionnons celle de Toulouse et sa centaine de [...]
Antonin Benoît DIOUF said
HI
also an African Library on Twitter
http://twitter.com/bugbactu
lindyjb said
Thanks for sharing this! :)
Claire B said
Hi
Here’s another one from UK.
Plymouth Libraries @plymlibraries
Kat said
Deakin University Australia is on twitter also – @deakinlibrary
Twitted by iWebrarian said
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