Libraries are among the "nonhuman" organizations that seem to me to be the best candidates for intense, effective use of twitter.

The iLibrarian covers the how and with an admirable combination of brevity and completeness.

Twitter's advantages are clear enough. The Library Journal wrote:

Twitter is a microblogging tool, an alerting system, a type of IM, a social network, a status updating tool like IM away messages, a conversation, and more. For librarians, it appears destined to be an essential conference tool as well as a personal productivity tool that can be used for creating to-do lists, tracking bug fixes, brainstorming with colleagues, and generally keeping in touch with friends.

I hope I missed one, but found no North Carolina library with an in-use, public-facing twitter account. Not even the North Carolina State University Library, where I studied as an undergraduate and worked as student stack supervisor to pay for additional schooling.

Staff: Yes.

Institution: Not that I could find.

The Missouri River Regional Library case study explains how well twitter works for them thus far, and a visit to the Missour River Regional Library on twitter seemed to affirm everything the Library Journal said. Although do they have their own webgoddess.

Really, she doesn't pretend to higher powers, and resort to personal deities is not required to make twitter work for your organization. Raleigh Durham International Airport uses twitter to issue alerts, as do a long list of other air hubs.

Organizations like the Brooklin Museum understand that twitter is more about frequent interaction than occasional alerts. And public libraries either are or wish to be about frequent interaction.

The Young Adult Library Services Association makes good use of twitter, but not the Wake County Public Libary.

Perhaps it's just a transitory case of twitterlag of a sad kind.