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Making researchers famous with social media

by Mal Booth on Feb 08, 2012

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Workshop presentation for UTS Research Week 2012 ...

Workshop presentation for UTS Research Week 2012
(Sometimes I really have no idea why I persist with Slideshare other than it being a free service. Again, the embedded hyperlinks have not been uploaded from the original document. This will present problems for the actual blogs linked on slide 11. I'll need to provide those links later. Sorry.)

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http://librarians.collected.info 2
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  • malbooth Mal Booth , University Librarian (acting, since July 2011) at University of Technology, Sydney Thanks Andrew, I think social media does play a part, but there is a lot more to it. I think resource provision has become only about a relatively narrow range of published resources, poor search services and some reference and literacy services that do not sem to have evolved much until recently. This has been due to a focus on efficiency and resulted from a lack of imagination and awareness of what else we should be doing. We hope our library becomes a knowledge, cultural and collaboration hub for UTS, providing a new and more relevant range of services that we are busy developing and exploring now. More must be done for researchers, but we cannot lose the focus on undergraduates and other community members in doing this. I think we need to be much less passive and reactive in both our collection development and service provision. 3 months ago Reply
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  • librarianidol Andrew Finegan , Freelance Information Professional Love this. I only just recently had an interesting and intense discussion with a colleague on the future of academic libraries, and whether they need to be less about resource provision, and more of hub for researchers to promote and share their work with the wider community. Social media, clearly, would play a huge part in this... 3 months ago Reply
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