Imperative Social Networking
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This document discusses the importance of social networking for librarians and information professionals. It notes that much of life is now spent online in participatory digital culture and navigating the flood of information has become difficult. It recommends building a Professional Learning Network (PLN) using current social media tools to both follow and lead, create and share content, and learn from others. The document provides examples of how school and virtual libraries can embed services through social media. It argues that librarians must go where users are online and embrace new technologies like mobile apps, virtual worlds, and Web 3.0 to remain relevant.
Imperative Social Networking
- 1. Imperative Social Networking Valerie Hill, PhD TWU School of Library and Information Studies LISD School Librarian @valibrarian ALA Ignite 2013 Chicago vhilledu@gmail.com
- 2. #1: The Information Hierarchy has toppled. Why is social networking IMPERATIVE?
- 3. #2: Much of our lives is spent online in participatory digital culture.
- 4. #3: Navigating the flood of information has become nearly impossible.
- 5. Throw (or grab) a digital life-preserver ring. Build a PLN- Professional Learning Network
- 6. Ways to build your PLN
- 7. Sound like a balancing act? It is----Being both follower and leader...both holding on to core values of the profession and letting go of “how things have always been done”
- 8. Current PLN tools Follow & Lead Create, Share, & Learn Curate & Build Join & Credit
- 9. Forget Figuring it Out
- 10. The BLUR between professional and personal online life
- 12. Social Media & Professional Growth
- 13. Social Media & Personal Life Consider the audience when sharing.
- 14. Participatory culture contributes to the flood of information online. We are both consumers and producers (prosumers).
- 15. Are you willing to makes some changes?
- 16. Serving Patrons wherever they are School Library Example • Embedding the library through social media/webmaster • Information literacy skills 21st Century • Embracing Web 2.0 & user-generated content • Content evaluation & curation • Mobile apps Virtual Library Example • Embedding library services in virtual spaces • International information literacy • Embracing Web 3.0 • Global spaces, virtual worlds (Skype, Minecraft, & MOOCs) “What we’re trying to do is have the library be wherever you are.” Nancy Roderer, John Hopkins Welch Medical Library http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/09/hopkins
- 17. Web 3.0 & the Rise of a Networked Generation We all live in virtual worlds, whether or not we have avatars.
- 18. Is individual privacy a relic? Digital citizenship is part of information literacy.
- 19. The library and the librarian are not synonymous. Take a risk and go where no librarian has gone before! “It may be that the great age of libraries is waning, but I am here to tell you that the great age of librarians is just beginning. It’s up to you to decide if you want to be a part of it.” ~T. Scott Plutchak
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