From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
"Social media have become serious academic tools for many scholars, who use them for collaborative writing, conferencing, sharing images, and other research-related activities. So says a study just posted online called 'Social Media and Research Workflow.'"
And:
"Librarians ought to be especially concerned by what's coming out in these discussions of social-media use, Mr. Nicholas said, because 'nobody is talking about librarians' being involved at all in this.' The academic use of such tools may leave libraries out in the cold, he said. 'There's a lot of soul-searching that needs to be done on the part of librarians, because this is their constituency.'"
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Bernie Sloan
Received on Tue Feb 22 2011 - 19:06:07 EST