This study provides proposed core elements of social media policy that specifically designed for academic libraries.Evaluation of social media policies from five organisations and a review of the literature were used for data collection.There are 15 proposed core elements recommended: policy objectives; policy definition; scope of the policy;university’s vision and mission; policy users; disclaimer; confidentiality; copyright; privacy; workflow; publicinformation; the use of professional language; the accuracy of the information; rule for links; and university andlibrary’s voices. The results of this study provide important aspects in the development of social media policy. Theproposed core elements of the social media policy discussed in this paper is specifically designed for the academiclibraries, but can also be used for other library types.

Associated Press. 2013. Social media guidelines for AP employees. http://www.ap.org/Images/Social-Media-Guidelines_tcm28-9832.pdf (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Coca-Cola Company. 2013. Online media sosial: the coca-cola company. http://www.cocacolacompany.com/stories/online-social-media-principles (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Coutinho, R. 2011. Keep it simple: Avoid a complicated media sosial policy for your employee handbook. Public Management, 93(4), 22. http://webapps.icma.org/pm/9304/ (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Farkas, M. 2009. Governing media sosial: Protect your library’s brand online. American Libraries, 40 (12), 35. http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/ (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Gomes, P. 2011. Friday five: Improving your media sosial policy. http://www.edelmandigital.com/2011/05/13/friday-five-improving-your-social-media-policy/ (Diakses 9/2/2014).

Kaplan, A. M., and Haenlein, M. 2010. Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of media sosial. Business Horizons, 53(1), 59–68. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2009.09.003.

Kroski, E. 2009. Should your library have a media sosial policy? School Library Journal, 55(10), 44-46. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/.

Lardinois, F. 2009. Domino’s: How one YouTube video can ruin a brand, April 16. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dominos_youtube_video.php (Diakses 8/2/2014 ).

Lauby, S. 2009. 10 Must-haves for your media sosial policy. http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/social-media-policy-musts/ (Diakses 9/2/2014).

Li, C., and Bernoff, J. 2008. Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.

Lieberman, J. 2009. Honda purges select comments from crosstour facebook page. http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/03/honda-purges-some-comments-from-crosstour-facebook-page/ (Diakses 9/2/2014).

Meth, P., and Williams, G. 2006. Literature reviews and bibliographic searches. Dalam V. Desai & R. B. Potter (Eds.), Doing development research (pp. 209–222). London: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi:10.4135/9781849208925.

National Library of Australia. 2012. Media sosial policy. http://www.nla.gov.au/policy-and-planning/social-media (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Parameswaran, M., and Whinston, A. B. 2007. Social computing: An overview. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 19 (1). http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol19/iss1/37 (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Queensland Government. 2011. Policy and guidelines for media sosial. http://www.qld.gov.au/web/socialmedia/policy-guidelines/ (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Reid, C. K. 2009. Should business embrace social networking? EContent, 32(5), 34-39. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Should-Business-Embrace-Social-Networking-54518.htm (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Scott, D. E. 2010. Let them communicate. EContent, 33(3), 40. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/Column/After-Thought/Let-Them-Communicate-66010.htm (Diakses 8/2/2014).

Sowers, K., Ellis, R. A., & Meyer-Adams, N. 2001. Literature reviews. Dalam B. A. Thyer (Ed.), The handbook of social work research methods. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi:10.4135/9781412986182.

University of Michigan. 2010. Media sosial guidelines. http://voices.umich.edu/docs/Social-Media-Guidelines.pdf (Diakses 8/2/2014).