Last week, this blog brought you 5 Ways to Use Pinterest At Your Academic Library. In this post, the blog covers five more ways on how academic libraries are using Pinterest to highlight events, subject guides, and books in their collection.

1. Events

• Edible Book Festival, Staley Library, Millikin University (Decatur, IL)

Staley Library uses Pinterest to show off different edible book displays to help students brainstorm new ideas for this annual event.

• Classes, Workshops, and Guest Speakers

Use a visual picture to announce these events and let your library's followers share with others. These pins could be pinned directly from your library's blog, Facebook profile, or Twitter feed using Pinterest's Pin It button, which allows you to pin an image directly from any website onto to a pinboard.

2. Featured Books

• Staff Picks: Wayne College Library (Orrville, OH)
• Topic of the Month: National Poetry Month, Holocaust, and Earth Day, St. Mary's College (Moraga, CA)
• New Books/E-books : Jane Bancroft Library, New College of Florida and University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (Sarasota, FL)

3. LibGuides/Subject Resources

• Fairmont State University and Piedmont Technical College (Fairmont, WV)

Take a look at their Campus 101 Guide, which answers frequently asked questioned about the library.

• Somerset Library Commons (Somerset and London, KY)

This library has LibGuides on how to use Blackboard, learning about MLA citations, finding the perfect graphic novel, and more.

4. Campus Authors and Authors in Residence

• Furman University Libraries (Greenville, SC) and St. Mary's College (Moraga, CA)

These libraries use Pinterest to highlight books written by faculty, staff, and students and let others know about research interests and achievements at a university.

• Bryn Mawr Libraries (Bryn Mawr, PA)

Does your college have authors or artists in residence? Let others virtually discover their work through Pinterest.

5. Reimagining the Library, Librarians, and the Book

St. Mary's College (Moraga, CA) has several light heartened boards making libraries, librarians, and books a topic of conversation when viewing these boards.

• Banned/Challenged Books Take ALA's list of frequently challenged and banned books and pin each title to a board. You could even have students repin or use the like feature for books they have read to support the freedom to read for Banned Books Week.
• Librarians/Libraries in the Movies Challenge or confirm the stereotypical librarian.
• Books Made into Movies Give students the book before it was made into a movie.
• Books in Books The setting of these books takes place in . . . a library.
• Books You Pretend to Read Self described as, "So when people ask, you nod, discuss it like you've actually read it", this board highlights some seminal books, but also Stephanie Meyer's Twilight.

These ideas originated from a collaborative video on Pinterest created in Wayne State University's LIS 6080 Information Technology on library's use of Web 2.0 technologies by libraries. Next week, this blog will look at how special collections and archives and subject specific libraries on college campuses are using Pinterest.

Read on in case you missed the first 5 ways to use Pinterest in an Academic Library.

What do you think? Where else would you use Pinterest? Please start a discussion by leaving your comments!