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"IUCAT available on Facebook" --

Former IU President Herman B Wells is still friends with several IU students, at least online.

His Facebook profile, created by IU librarians, is just one of the many approaches Wells Library employees are using to reach out and connect with the student community.

“It seems like worlds colliding. There’s your research self and your personal self,” said Carrie Donovan, an instructional services librarian at the Wells Library. “But people have their whole personas on Facebook, and it makes sense to have your academic self as part of that persona.”

As part of this multi-faceted approach to become more accessible, Wells Library staff members introduced an IUCAT Facebook application last month, allowing users to access and search IU’s online database of books.

Indiana Daily Student, December 10, 2009  Full story.