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It’s easy to post your LibraryAware items directly to Facebook and Instagram. An Administrator on your account will first need to authorize your accounts under the ADMIN tab. Only Publishers and Administrators can post to your library’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.

See also: Social Media - FAQs

Managing Social Account Connections


The Social Accounts page is where you manage your organization’s Facebook connection to LibraryAware. Select ADMIN from the main navigation toolbar, then open Social Accounts on the left.




Authorize a Facebook or Instagram Page

Before you can post to one of your organization’s Facebook or Instagram pages, you must first authorize Facebook or Instagram to pull content from your LibraryAware account. You can authorize as many pages as you like. If you have multiple pages authorized, you will be able to select which page to add your content to when you post an item to Facebook or Instagram.
   
NOTE: You must already have permission to post to your organization’s Facebook or Instagram pages from your personal account before authorizing LibraryAware to post to the pages. This will not give other LibraryAware users access to your personal Facebook or Instagram accounts, just to the Facebook or Instagram pages for which you are an admin.

   
NOTE: Make sure that you are logged out of your personal Facebook account in your browser before adding your organization’s account to LibraryAware. If you are not logged out in the browser, you will get a blank pop-up window instead of seeing the login page for Facebook for the authentication process in LibraryAware.


Under Facebook Settings or Instagram Settings:
  1. Click the Authorize button.



  2. The Facebook or Instagram login will appear in a pop-up window. Follow the prompts to log in and select the page(s) you want to authorize. This will not give other LibraryAware users access to your personal Facebook or Instagram accounts, just to the library pages for which you are an admin.

  3. At the LibraryAware Social Accounts page, you will now see the page listed under Currently Authorized Facebook Pages or Currently Authorized Instagram Pages.

  4. If you need to authorize additional pages under a different login, log out of Facebook or Instagram before repeating steps 1-3.


Deauthorize a Facebook or Instagram Page

When you deauthorize a Facebook or Instagram page, users at your organization will no longer be able to post to it from LibraryAware. However, this will not affect messages previously posted from LibraryAware.

Under Facebook Settings or Instagram Settings:
  1. Under Currently Authorized, check the box beside the page you want to remove.



  2. Click Deauthorize Selected Pages.


Reauthorize a Facebook Page

Due to changes requested by Facebook, any pages authorized before February 13, 2023, must be reauthorized in LibraryAware. Any pages not reauthorized will be listed as invalid.
  1. Select the invalid Facebook page and click the Remove button.

  2. Click the Authorize button and follow the steps above to authorize the page.

  3. Once reauthorized, the page(s) will appear under Currently Authorized Facebook Pages.
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