Imperative Social NetworkingValerie Hill, PhD

TWU School of Library and Information StudiesLISD School Librarian

@valibrarian ALA Ignite 2013 Chicago vhilledu@gmail.com

#1: The Information Hierarchy has toppled.

Why is social networking IMPERATIVE?

#2: Much of our lives is spent online in participatory digital culture.

#3: Navigating the flood of information has become nearly impossible.

Throw (or grab) a digital life-preserver ring.

Build a PLN- Professional Learning Network

Ways to build your PLN

Follow and Lead Join Conversations

Take risks & try new tools

(e.g. twitter or scoopit) Balance traditio

n & innovatio

n

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”

Current PLN tools

Follow & Lead

Create, Share, & Learn Curate & Build

Join & Credit

Participatory

Culture

Forget Figuring it Out

The BLUR between professionaland personal online life

Social Mediafor Librarianship

Social Media & Professional Growth

Fast-

pace

d lea

rning

Substance is important

Social Media & Personal Life

Consider the audience when sharing.

Participatory culture contributes to the flood of information online. We are both consumers and producers

(prosumers).

Are you willing to makes some changes?

Serving Patronswherever 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

Web 3.0 & the Rise of a Networked Generation

We all live in virtual worlds, whether or not we have avatars.

Is individual privacy a relic?Digital citizenship is part of information literacy.

The library and the librarian are not synonymous.

Take a risk and go where nolibrarian 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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