A look at how participatory digital culture impacts education and information literacy.

1. Imperative Social Networking
Valerie Hill, PhD
TWU School of Library and Information Studies
LISD School Librarian
@valibrarian ALA Ignite 2013 Chicago
vhilledu@gmail.com

2. #1: The Information Hierarchy has toppled.
Why is social networking
IMPERATIVE?

3. #2: Much of our lives is spent online in participatory
digital culture.

4. #3: Navigating the flood of information has become
nearly impossible.

5. Throw (or grab) a digital
life-preserver ring.
Build a PLN-
Professional
Learning Network

6. Ways to build
your PLN

7. Sound like a balancing act?
It is----Being both follower and leader...both holding
on to core values of the profession and letting go of
“how things have always been done”

8. Current PLN tools
Follow & Lead
Create, Share, & Learn Curate & Build
Join & Credit

9. Forget Figuring it Out

10. The BLUR between professional
and personal online life

11. Social Media
for Librarianship

12. Social Media & Professional Growth

13. Social Media & Personal Life
Consider the audience when sharing.

14. Participatory culture contributes to
the flood of information online. We
are both consumers and producers
(prosumers).

15. Are you willing to makes some changes?

16. Serving Patrons
wherever they are
School Library Example
• Embedding the library
through social
media/webmaster
• Information literacy
skills 21st Century
• Embracing Web 2.0 &
user-generated
content
• Content evaluation &
curation
• Mobile apps
Virtual Library Example
• Embedding library
services in virtual
spaces
• International
information literacy
• Embracing Web 3.0
• Global spaces,
virtual worlds
(Skype, Minecraft,
& MOOCs)
“What we’re trying to do is have the library be wherever you are.” Nancy Roderer,
John Hopkins Welch Medical Library http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/09/hopkins

17. Web 3.0 & the Rise of a Networked
Generation
We all live in virtual worlds, whether or not we have avatars.

18. Is individual privacy a relic?
Digital citizenship is part of information literacy.

19. The library and the librarian
are not synonymous.
Take a risk and go where no
librarian has gone before!
“It may be that the great age of libraries is waning, but I am
here to tell you that the great age of librarians is just
beginning. It’s up to you to decide if you want to be a part of
it.”
~T. Scott Plutchak

20. Bibliography
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