Facebook Hostile To Librarians?

You can read the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education and find out.

Social Networking and Libraries

How are MySpace, Blogs and other social networking applications affecting your library? Do you have policies in place about their usage? Bandwidth issues? Here are some positive applications of social networking software by libraries (and one museum):

• Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library Youth Services
• Brooklyn College Library
• American Museum of Natural History
• Cheshire (CT) Public Library
• University of Texas - Austin Libraries
• Portland Community College

Welcome to Reference & Instruction Exchange Roundtable

This is a cooperative effort to start a dialogue about Reference and Instruction in NC Community Colleges. What are you doing now, what are your instructional and reference success stories, and what are your ideas on improving instruction and reference services with the CC student population? Comments are enabled on this blog, but please stay close to the topics listed in the mission statement at the top of the screen.

We would also like to start a conversation about peer evaluation; you may also see references to this concept under "peer coaching" in the professional literature. We are interested in this concept with the emphasis on "peer", with librarian's working to improve each other as professionals, not as a part of an employee's evaluation.