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Introduction
See also Emerging technology librarians | Information literacy | Social media landscape | Web 2.0
"Keep up with the literacies [of social media]...not the technologies".
Howard Rheingold (2008)
This wiki entry is an early draft of competencies for social media-literate librarians.
Murphy & Moulaison (2009) have written a fine document on this topic, and related the framework back to the ACRL information literacy competencies.
Top Ten (10) Social Media Competencies for Librarians
Top 10 des compétences 2.0 essentielles aux bibliothécaires
- Understand, explain and teach others about the main principles and trends of web 2.0 (and library 2.0)
- List major tools, categories and affordances of social networking
- Apply social media to solve information problems, and communicate digitally with users
- Use social networking sites for promotional, reference and instructional services in libraries
- Navigate, evaluate and create content on social networking sites
- Follow netiquette, conform to ethical standards and interact appropriately with others online
- Explain copyright, security and privacy issues on social media sites to colleagues and user communities
- Understand the importance of identity and reputation management using social media
- Explain related terminology such as collaboration 2.0, remix and open source
- Renew social media competencies, advocate for institutional strategies and policies and build evidence base in social media
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