The initiatives of Institute of Library and Information Science UMCS on Facebook

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to explain, how to build a brand of scientific institution on Facebook – the most popular community portal. This communication platform favours development of relationships between academics, students and librarians also. This article shows how to make a good fan page, which actions will help reach more people, engage the fans as much as possible and what’s mean the power of likes, comments and shares. It describes all initiatives on Facebook taken by academics in Institute of Library and Information Science in Maria Curie-Sklodowska University.