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Many people don't like to talk about their finances. And, even though personal finance is on everyone's mind now, that doesn't mean we are all equipped to make good choices on how to manage our money or even know where to find the information we need to make good decisions. There are some new ways libraries can distribute information in a Web/Library 2.0 world. Librarians can use tools such as Second Life, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to share crucial information about the great resources available and to remind people that a library can be an excellent source of unbiased investing information.
Saving money, investing for a comfortable retirement, sending children to college--these are topics of enduring interest to library users. In this anxious time of global economic recession, the need for accurate, current, unbiased financial information becomes even more crucial, as does help in finding and understanding that information. How can libraries meet this information need? What new methods can libraries use to get this information out?
With support from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation [http://www.finrafoundation.org] and the American Library Association, [http://www.ala.org], a network of 25 libraries [http://smartinvesting.ala.org] is now making resources available to more than 8 million patrons at libraries nationwide through Smart investing@ your library. Created in 2007, the...
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