Are you ready for Social Networking?
Everyone’s talking about it! Perhaps you’ve explored MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Your library may be using these sites to communicate with your library’s clientele — or thinking about doing so. Maybe you’ve attended workshops on Web 2.0. You may have read the reports of MLA’s Social Networking Software Task Force. Do you want to learn more?
To learn more about social networking, try out the NN/LM PSR Social Networking Site. This site is a forum for NN/LM PSR members to interact with each other while experiencing a safe social networking site, furthering their professional goals, and improving services in their libraries. Admission is by invitation only; however any member can invite other members. When you receive your invitation, you will click on a link and create a member record with your name, position title, library, LIBID (LIBrary IDentifier), and Library Type. (If you don’t know your LIBID, call us toll-free at 800-338-7657.) After new members are invited, they are approved by NN/LM PSR Regional Network Office staff. At present, the site is restricted to members of the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region.
The site’s tagline, “working together to enhance access to health information”, sets the tone. This site is intended as a professionally-oriented social networking site. The site currently has forums for the following topics: Advocacy, DOCLINE, E-Licensing, Health Literacy, Searching Tips and Tricks, and Technology. A number of groups have been established — there is something for everyone: Newbie Librarians, Mid-Career Librarians, Graying Librarians, Academic Librarians, and Hospital Librarians. We are eager to see if and how our Network members use this site and what we can learn from it. Let us know if you want more.
NN/LM PSR Social Networking Site
The NN/LM PSR Social Networking Site will be available as a pilot project through June 2008. After that, we will seek your input, evaluate the site, and determine if this activity furthers the goals of the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region and its members. If you have any questions or if you would like an invitation to join the site, please feel free to contact Julie Kwan or Sharon Dennis.
