{"id":2,"date":"2010-07-13T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-18T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T21:41:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my social media blog!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Sumanjit Manhas. I am a MLIS student at the <a title=\"SLAIS homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slais.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Library, Archival and Information Studies<\/a> (SLAIS) at UBC. I just  finished my second year. Basically, I am on my way to becoming a librarian!\u00a0 I believe that knowledge  is the  foundation for everything and it enables people to do so much more. My previous work in public libraries helped to shape who I am and this path that I am traveling on.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is an assignment for my online course <a title=\"LIBR 559M \" href=\"http:\/\/www.slais.ubc.ca\/courses\/syllabi\/09-10-st2\/l559m.htm\" target=\"_blank\">LIBR 559M: Social Media for Information Professionals<\/a>. As I complete the six <a title=\"LIBR 559M Wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca\/index.php\/LIBR_559M_-_Social_Media_for_Information_Professionals\" target=\"_blank\">modules<\/a> for this class I will be blogging my views on social media as to what I have learned and think.<\/p>\n<p>My  interest for social media started at SLAIS when I also saw my instructor, <a title=\"Learn about Dean\" href=\"http:\/\/hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca\/index.php\/Dean_Giustini,_UBC_Biomedical_Branch_Librarian_-_2010\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Giustini&#8217;s<\/a> social media presentation and took his health librarianship course.  Otherwise, my use of social media tools has been limited to school  related work where I have blogged, created wikis, used GoogleDocs,  Flickr etc. I feel that time has always limited my use of such tools.<\/p>\n<p>However,  I strongly agree that these tools are essential for information  professionals to reach their patrons, for collaboration and information  literacy. I&#8217;m looking forward to learning more about social media and  how it can benefit our libraries. I want to overcome this &#8220;time  limitation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as I explore social media and what it can do for us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/files\/2010\/07\/CIMG0433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5\" title=\"Sumanjit\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/files\/2010\/07\/CIMG0433-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/files\/2010\/07\/CIMG0433-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/files\/2010\/07\/CIMG0433-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my social media blog! My name is Sumanjit Manhas. I am a MLIS student at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) at UBC. I just finished my second year. Basically, I am on my way to becoming a librarian!\u00a0 I believe that knowledge is the foundation for everything and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2262,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}