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D’Arcy Stainton, Teen Librarian at VPL, says Social Media …

Interviewing a librarian was an activity challenge for the course LIBR 559M at UBC The day I met with D’Arcy Stainton, for this interview to discuss Social Media, he was in the thick of a Do-it-Yourself button making session in … Continue reading

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Immersive / Virtual Worlds for Kids … Just for Fun

After going through the module content for this week I was feeling excited about the potential for immersive and virtual worlds. I have a lot more experience with immersive and virtual worlds than I originally thought when I first started … Continue reading

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Information Aggregators

This week the LIBR 559M course content was about information aggregators and course participants shared a lot of information about what they have used, are using and may use in the future. I was exposed to many information aggregators. Ironically, … Continue reading

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Creating New Ways To Communicate And Share

This week the participants of LIBR 559M were challenged to “create something”. We were to create a contribution to social media content. As I worked though the course content of the week others started to create. It took me a … Continue reading

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Libraries Collaborate on Collection Development

What kinds of projects are suited to collaboration in information organizations? Collaboration must be mutually beneficial to all participating. Libraries have a lot in common with one another as they provide similar services as portals to information, have similar goals … Continue reading

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Libraries Creating Participation With Social Media

Prologue I have been lurking in the LIBR 559M course site this week hoping for a light bulb moment.  I have been reading and thinking about what I have to say about social media participation.  Thank goodness that lurking is … Continue reading

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Introduction

Welcome to the social media learning adventure.   This blog has been established to fulfil a course assignment for LIBR 559M: Social Media for Information Professionals within the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, for the MLIS degree at the University … Continue reading

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