[Web4lib] Harvesting the Hive: Social Networks and Libraries (RUSA/MARS President's Program at ALA Annual)

[Amber Prentiss]

Harvesting the Hive: Social Networks and Libraries
Reference and User Services Association Machine-Assisted Reference
Section (RUSA/MARS) President's Program

Who
LibraryThing (www.librarything.com) creator Tim Spaulding

Library Journal mover and shaker Meredith Farkas, blogger of
Information Wants to Be Free
(http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/) and TechEssence
(http://techessence.info/), and founder of Library Success: A Best
Practices Wiki (www.libsuccess.org)

Purdue University digital reference coordinator, Web 2.0 researcher,
and author Matthew Bejune

What
Social networking services such as YouTube, the Facebook, flickr, text
messaging, and podcasting are second nature to youth, who integrate
these technologies into daily life in unexpected ways. Bibliophiles
tag and share their favorite books on LibraryThing, while librarians
communicate using blogs and wikis such as Library Success. Our
experienced panel will discuss this rapidly growing phenomenon and
present examples of innovative outreach and reference services that
utilize social software such as tagging, blogging and wikis to reach
online users.

When
Sunday, June 24, 2007
10:30 a.m. - noon

Where
Washington Convention Center Room 144 A-C

See our ad at: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~aaprent/marsad_editedfinal.pdf