as there is only one message here, and it looks something really good, worth a follow up, to which the its refers. Is the its the social media? Or the Librarians, or the public and educational libraries?
Social media has no responsibilities, it is a thing, or a group of things, and things cannot have responsibilities. Public Libraries are a thing, but as well as a social medium, there is s democratic engagement of both citizens and professionals.
If the libraries are not funded properly, then the professional engagement of the professions is challenged, as it has been since the 1976 there is no alternative (not Thatcher but Healey).
Multi-media was a major matter in ILEA in the 1970s, and ILEA was one of the first bodies to become a corpse. Now the agencies which are education authorities are also library authorities but don't seem to join the pieces up very well.
I've been looking at the National Curriculum from the DepartEducat (social media need cats) for keystages 2/3 in Art and Design and Design Technology to see what might be present about knowledge organisation or the design of information systems, and I've been looking in public, education, libraries, museums, galleries, on what is available to understand how to learn there matters.
The National Curriculum has a strange line about matters, skills, processes (which could engage just about everything) and a line about art, craft, design from ancient times up to the present day, which too includes just about everything. There is nothing however about how access to learning resources (which in ILEA days was the general body, and there were debates about the management role of multi-media, librarians, teachers, within the school and within the authority) are to be financed or allocated.
Social media as now understood, along with smart devices and search space technology are learning opportunities for design, but need an open access framework to resources which provides freedom of expression and access to information (the UN charter for Human Rights 1948). UNESCO might have a charter, but much is missing in Modern Britain in its implementation and for this the professions have an obligation. Its is the profession of librarianship.
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University,
Kingston Upon Thames,
London.
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:20:20 +0000
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Subject: MmIT Conference 2015: Call for papers
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*MmIT Conference 2015: Call for papers*
*‘With Power Comes Great Responsibility - How librarians can Harness the
Power of Social Media for the Benefit of its Users’*
The annual conference of the Cilip Multimedia, Information and Technology
Group (MmIT) is taking place at the Edge Conference Centre at the
University of Sheffield on Monday 14th September and Tuesday 15th September
2015.
The theme of the conference will be around social media in relation to the
information and library sector. Time has moved swiftly on since the early
days of libraries experimenting with social media platforms as channels of
communication and many libraries now routinely use social media for
marketing and promotion purposes, but there is a wealth of other creative
and alternative social media practice which has evolved and is open to the
sector.
Therefore the MmIT conference aims to revisit social media and explore the
different and evolving practices available to us.
Conference themes will consist of:
- Altmetrics and measuring impact
- Using social media for research
- Marketing and promoting library services using social media
- Social media for professional development
We are also pleased to announce the inclusion of a Student Forum at this
conference, in which MA and PhD level students are invited to give short
presentations of 5-10 minutes on the subject of their own research,
provided it is linked to the theme of the conference.
If you are interested in contributing a 45 minute paper, workshop, seminar
or PhD presentation to the conference please complete an abstract
submission form (attached) and return it to Robert Cunningham (
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All those who submit will be notified by Monday 11th May as to whether they
have been successful.
All speakers will receive a complimentary day at the conference and will
have their travel expenses paid. If speakers wish to attend the remainder
of the conference and the conference dinner these will need to be booked
additionally.
The successful students, contributing to the PhD forum will get full
subsidised places at the conference (travel will not be included in this
instance)
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Robert Cunningham
Faculty Librarian
Education (BA Primary Teaching with QTS, CPD, Postgraduate Taught,
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The Sheppard-Worlock Library
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