Tomorrow’s Tech Sharecase (14 July 2011, 12:30 pm – 1: 30 pm, room 320a) will focus on social networks. In the original email invitation I sent out, I asked everyone to think about what social networking sites they use. I think we should expand that a bit and think instead about social networks and the academy:
- how do students use social networks and which ones are they using now?
- what might students expect of the library and its staff who are on the same social networks (for example, how do they want to interact with an institutional accounts on networks? how do they want to interact with us as library staff with personal/professional accounts on these networks?)
- how do faculty use social networks and which ones are they using now
- how is scholarly communication being altered by the growth of social networks (see, for example, this report by the Centre for the Study of Research Communications at the University of Nottingham titled “Social Networking Sites and their role in Scholarly Communications”pdf)
- how we we use social networks for professional development? for pinging the hive mind?
