One thing I find very annoying about Pinterest (and I use it often), is that people do not properly describe their pins. If the pin has a great description with good keywords, it’s far more likely to be pinned often and become popular. In fact, I often correct links (for example, people post to the tumblr main page instead of the actual post link…that really irks me) and provide better descriptions which gets my pins repinned and liked often.

And the booklists idea from Baldwin! That’s brilliant!

http://pinterest.com/baldwinlib/

I would love to see more libraries on Pinterest, sharing ideas and the like.

The Social Networking Librarian as also discussed this : http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2011/12/10/pinterest-and-libraries/

I also could see it being used internally. Ask staff to sign up, using invites, and having everyone contribute ideas on what they wanted to do.

I have found that advertising our databases works best when we appeal to people with a specific problem and explain how the database would solve it, such as “Learn to speak Mandarin with Mango Languages. Just use your library card number to log in!”

I think, too, a lot of people get stuck at the “Now, where did I put my library card?” stage, which is just as difficult of a hurdle as the “What’s a database?” stage!