Using FourSquare: check‐ins are not just for books!
Library ManagementPublished 9 August 2013Open access
Aaron Tay, Georgiana Glass, Chew Shu Wen
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An overview of how the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries has been using FourSquare Specials to engage users and to promote library activities and events and the implementation of various FourSquare “Specials” in the different library branches and the reactions of the users is provided.
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10.1108/LM-07-2012-0047
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