Hi Everyone,
I am sharing a YouTube video from Rutgers School of Communication and Information. It portrays that libraries are a physical place for students to connect, interact and study. In addition, libraries work alongside in the digital world where the amount of information being dispersed can become overwhelming. It depicts librarians as “digital curators” discovering, organizing, and using information in an ethical manner.
The video uses an example of the book the Norton
Anthology used by English teachers. You
can connect it digitally to reviews, criticism and analysis, rate performances
of poems, period art and music and Hip-Hop interpretations. The students can comment on digital
information with creative responses expanding the student’s knowledge. And it is a way to share the information with
other students. The librarian is the curator
of the social media information.
I do see "information point guard" as a key term for what Librarians do regarding social media. With the social media landscape, there's a growing need for information literacy as understanding what's a reliable source becomes a bigger challenge. Even as librarians use social media to engage with students or the community, this role of curating social media becomes increasingly important as what they curate seen as trusted sources of information.
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