Social Networking and Libraries

Introduction: The Social Web

• The Machine Is Us
• Wikipedia says:
  • "Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication. Many advocates of using these tools believe (and actively argue or assume) that these create actual community, and have adopted the term "online communities" to describe the social structures that they claim result."
  • Show the history and discussion pages

Social Networks and Libraries: What makes effective participation?

• Facebook
  • IBM press release
• Flickr
• Social Bookmarking
  • Heather's furl
  • Iris' del.icio.us
  • Morrisville State College Catalog (includes Del.icio.us link)

Libraries and Social Networks: What is the library's role in these networks?

• Social tools as a library collection

   

  • Collection Development
    • Iris' links to tools
    • Heather's link to tools
    • Kristin's Data Blog
  • Curricular Role
    • Feeding links to students (Iris' links to Image Collections and then the Subject Guide built using those links -- Links on Iris' liaison pages)
    • Google Docs and Spreadsheets

• Social tools and scholarly communication

• Personal/Professional work
  • Tools for the sake of workflow, not for the sake of tools
    • FrontPage
    • IM (on web pages such as Iris' liaison page)
    • To Do lists to coordinate projects
    • Google Docs and Spreadsheets
    • Google Reader and Bloglines
    • Briding Reference Blog
    • 5 Weeks to a Social Library
  • Managing your tools

• Libraries as collaborators

Discussion: Who is responsible?  For what?

• Do we lead or do we follow?
• Who teaches this stuff?
• Who learns, and how?