Building School Library: A Unique Experience Through Facebook

1. Building School Library: A Unique
Experience Through
Vasanth Raju N.
Librarian
Government First Grade
College
Periyapatna
vasanthrz@gmail.com
Vimal Kumar Nellyadi
Teacher
Government Higher
Primary School
Nellyadi, Puttur
/vimalkumar.nellyadi
Paper Presented at the National Conference on “Social Media & Libraries”
December 5th 2014, SBRR Mahajana First Grade College, Mysore

2. Presentation Overview
 Introduction
 Social Media and Social Change
 Social media and Political Campaign and Activism
 Social Media and Social Activism
 Social Media and Social Good
 How Facebook Facilitated in Establishing School Library at
the GHPS-Nellyadi, Puttur

3. Internet in general and SNSs in particular
provide the masses with free and timely
information which has the power to
enable attention, awareness and
eventually activism
- Clay Shirky

4. Social Media and Social Change
• Political Activism and Campaign
 2008 US Election Campaign
 2014 Indian Parliament Election ( The current Indian PM has
the 25 million followers on his Facebook page, Barack Obama is the
only other politician to have more Facebook fan than Modi (NDTV, 2014)
 Arab Spring (Egyptian Revolution, Iranian and
Tunisian Revolution)

5. Social Media and Social Activism
 Occupy Wall Street campaign
1.4 million Likes and spread to other cities
 India Against Corruption
- 1.5 million likes
 Pink Chaddi Campaign
Went Viral
 Kiss of Love Protest

6. Social Media and Social Good
• Crowd Funding
- Lucia Film- Produced through Crowd Funding
( More than 100 investors contributed funds
through Facebook and a blog)
• Community Participation
– Change in policy and Law (#DelhiGangRape)

7. How Facebook Facilitated in
Establishing a Library at the GHPS-Nellyadi,
Puttur, Dakshina Kannada

8. How it is all Started ?
“There are no new books in the school to
read”
- One of the Students Response

9. How it is all Started ?
Conti…
Fig 1. Teacher Requesting for Providing Books in his Personal Facebook Page
(3rd October 2014)

10. Overwhelming Response for the Request
Status
Likes Almost 80 Likes
Comments 30 comments
Share 101 Share
Fig. 2. Comments for the message posted on the teachers personal Facebook Page

11. Teachers Post Appeared in avadhimag.com
(CªÀ¢ü)
http://avadhimag.com/

12. Comments for the Appeal (request )in
avadhimag.com
The comments were made from abroad also to support the
cause and some of the people have sent the M.O. through post
Office to the school.

13. Within a span of 40 days the school generated almost 1.
50 Lakhs of rupees books to the library through
Facebook
This is What the Teacher wrote in his Facebook Wall on November 14th 2014

14. Library Inaugural Function Invitation-1

15. Library Inaugural Function Invitation-2

16. Eventually local literary figure Sri Purandara Bhat B., inaugurated
the School Library on 20th November 2014 with full of joy in the Face
of Students and teachers
Nellyadi Government Higher Primary School Library inauguration report appeared in
one of the local newspaper

17. Thank You
?
Image Courtesy: google.com, facebook.com, Avadhimag.com, Nellaydi School Facebook Page