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 * “Can a media specialist do their job now if they are not also a social media specialist? I’m not sure,” [|Karl Fisch] (on Twitter: karlfisch)**

Thursday, June 18th, 8:00 PM Eastern Elluminate session login: [] You know you're a 21st century school librarian [|How could we not be social media specialists?] (slideshare) media type="custom" key="3999201"

Questions for discussion:
 * How does a librarian use social media in practice? for professional development? with learners? faculty?
 * What specific social networking tools do you use and how do you use them?
 * How does social networking reflect/support our standards?
 * Can you be relevant without understanding the new tools?
 * What do these new tools mean to library big concepts? (information ethics, intellectual freedom, access to information, evaluation, collection, interacting with information sources, communicating with users/learners, contributing as digital citizens, etc.)
 * How does social media change the way we present our services and instruction online?
 * Do we need to retool our profession?
 * How do social media affect your physical space? What might need to change?

[|AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner] [|Social Media Specialists?] (Lauren Barack, SLJ) [|On the librarian: What's the point . . ? The Twitter conversation] [|AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner] [|Week in the Life of a New Media Teacher Librarian] (Judy O'Connell) [|Darren Draper The Ideal School Library Media Center] [|The Ideal School Library] Darren Draper TechLearning Blog WebTools4U2Use NewToolsWorkshop (Joyce) TopTenReasons (Joyce--work in progress) NECC Library Tools Smackdown [|Peter Goodwin's Social Networking Blogpost] [|Ten Ways Library Schools Should be Teaching Social Media] [|Towards a Transformative Pedagogy for School Libraries] (Asselin, M. & Doiron, R. 2008). [|New Literacies, New Libraries, New Learners] (Asselin, M. & Doiron, R. 2008). [|Of Libraries, Campfires and Value] (Carolyn) [|Which Way do We Go?] (Carolyn) [|A New Model?] (library design) (Carolyn) [|Third Places] (library design) (Carolyn) [|Design Share] (library design and school design) [|Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way: Library 2.0, The Concept of Authority, and Social Scholarship (]March 2008, Buffy) [|What Are You Teaching in 2009?] (Buffy) Research Pathfinders 2.0 and Social Media (Buffy) Collaboration, Connectivism, and Social Scholarship: Media 21 Project ([|Buffy]) Pathfinders Using Social Media in Action: [|Swine Flu], [|Iran Elections], [|Somalia Pirates] [|This Is the Moment: Legitimize Social Media in Education] The Networked Student media type="custom" key="3993291"
 * [|Social Networking Literacies for Librarians Conference Paper by Joe Murphy and Heather Moulaison (6 pages; PDF)]**

Our blogs and sites:
 * [|NeverEndingSearch blog]
 * [|Springfield Township Virtual Library]
 * [|The Unquiet Librarian]; [|The Unquiet Library]; The Unquiet Library Social Media Presence
 * [|Cathy Nelson's TechnoTuesday]
 * [|Carolyn Foote's Not So Distant Future]