LIBR 246-11 Web 2.0 (Summer 2011)

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About the Course

LIBR 246-04/13 is a graduate-level online course for the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University in California. This Drupal classroom is where most of the course takes place.

Course Objectives:

• Utilize social software tools for information collection, management, dissemination and collaboration.
• Evaluate social software tools and specific implementations of these tools.
• Understand how communities form through the use of social software tools.
• Identify best practices for individual social software tools.
• Design concrete services using social software tools that can be implemented in libraries and information organizations and plan for their marketing and continued maintenance.

About the Instructor: Meredith Farkas

I am the Head of Instructional Services at Portland State University in Oregon, a job which I just started in April 2011.  I am the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online and write the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. I've been blogging for over five years at Information Wants to be Free.  I've always been passionate about online learning, having chaired an online conference and created an online course to teach librarians about social software.

I am endlessly fascinated by social software; how communities form, why people contribute content, and, most importantly, how to capitalize on these tools in our daily work with patrons and colleagues.

Need to contact me? You can reach me at mgfarkas(at)gmail(dot)com.

Where you can find me:

• AIM: librarianmer
• flickr: librarianmer
• twitter: librarianmer
• meebo: librarianmer
• friendfeed: librarianmer
• facebook: meredithfarkas