mediated: library community & culture (re)imagined thru social media

Mediated:Library Community & Culture (re)Imagined Thru Social Media

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Social mediashapes community

shapes us

Tools promote visibility, findability, searchability, accessibility

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Mediatorsshape communities & cultures

shape libraries

collaborate, participate, create, facilitate, aggregate

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Mediate:librarians need to use social media

in pursuit of library objectives

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Mediated:how are librarians using social media?

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Socially-mediated:what future web 2.0 skills do you need?

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Mediated:is there a scholarship of social media?

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Social media:how will librarians assess/

measure its value?

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Social media: some say it imperils our future

…are social media strategies/ policies needed ?

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | dean.giustini@ubc.ca | March 2010

Socially-media(ted) benefits

Encourage collaboration between librarians & users in the cloud

Share information, ideas & knowledge

(Re)define libraries’ mission & strategic directions

Embed librarians where users form communities

Social media promotes visibility, findability, searchability, accessibility