***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
Colleagues/
I have discovered A Most Interesting Post That Has Thrown Chills Up My
Liver [:-)
[University of Michigan Survey] / Posted December 15, 2007 /
userslib.com
QUESTION: If you could contact a librarian via Facebook or MySpace for
help with your research, would you? If not, why?
Data/Analysis
A total of 23% of respondents stated that *yes* or *maybe* they
would be interested in contacting a librarian via these two social
networking sites.
Undergrads had a slightly higher than average percentage of 34%.
Nearly half of the total respondents stated they would not be
interested, but for various reasons - the biggest reason being that they
feel the current methods (in-person, email, IM) are more than
sufficient. 14% said no because they felt it was inappropriate or that
Facebook/MySpace is a social tool, not a research tool.
Links / Graphics / And More at
[
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/01/data-students-facebook-library-outreach.html
]
[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/ ]
Thanks to Suzanne Chapman, interface and user testing specialist for
the University of Michigan Library*s Digital Library Production
Service, and Team !!!
From A Snowing Central Iowa ...
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
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