Posts Tagged ‘social media’
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Modular Short Form Videos for Library Instruction
2017–10–04 | 9 commentsIn Brief Expensive software isn’t necessary to create effective tutorials. Quick, unedited tutorials created on social media, such as on Instagram or Snapchat, may be more effective. These short form videos (SFVs) combine the advantages of animated GIFs with the advantages of screencasts: modularity, repetition of steps, and animated visuals supported by pertinent audio. SFVs…
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Following the Yik Yak: Using Social Media Observations to Understand Student Needs on College Campuses
2017–07–12 | 3 commentsIn Brief: What can social media tell us about our patrons? We look at Yik Yak through the lens of library ethnography, suggesting that anonymous social media can reveal not only complaints and commentary about library services and spaces, but also uncover students’ emotional and social experience with research and study space. Looking at social…
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Social Media at The College of New Jersey Library
2017–01–18 | Comments Off on Social Media at The College of New Jersey LibraryIn Brief: This article discusses how and why The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Library decided not to develop library-specific social media channels and why other academic institutions should consider a similar approach. For many years, most literature on social media was how-to based (Jacobson, 2011); as a result, when academic librarians discuss engaging students,…
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Creative Destruction in Libraries: Designing our Future
2013–11–20 | 9 commentsTags: academic libraries, creative desruction, higher education, liberal arts colleges, makerspaces, saarinen, social mediaIn Brief: Joseph Schumpeter defines creative destruction as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” As libraries struggle with how to position themselves to thrive in the digital age, how can we balance the traditional elements of librarianship like…
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Q&A: Lead Pipe on Professional Development
2012–02–08 | 11 commentsTags: blogging, committees, conferences, job searching, networking, online presence, personal branding, professional development, publishing, resumes, social mediaBy Editorial Board This week, In the Library with Lead Pipe fields professional development and career questions from library school students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The questions they asked ranged from committee work to composing cover letters to conference attendance. Here is the complete list (so you can jump around if…