New social networking article

By: Meg

9 Apr 2008

The Social Networking Titans: Facebook and MySpace, the second installment of the column about social networking sites that I co-author with Debbie Ginsberg, has been published at LLRX:

With this article, librarians Deborah Ginsberg and Meg Kribble raise awareness about the different features provided by these services, and their respective impact on students, lawyers, public users, fellow professionals, and other patrons.

In addition, I was surprised to find our law library’s Facebook page featured on the cover and in the feature article of this month’s AALL Spectrum. The article by Jennifer Behrens is a great overview of the Pages feature on Facebook.

I have two short articles in this quarter's Southeastern Law Librarian.

"From 'Dueling Banjos' to Harmonious Singing: The SEAALL Institute on Law Librarians & Technologists" (pages 20-21) is a coherent summary of the SEAALL conference institute--as opposed to my outline-format blog posts about it.

"Are You 2.0?" (pages 18-19) is my attempt to briefly explain what Web 2.0 is, concluded with some examples of how law librarians are using it. I mentioned the Civil Law Dictionary Project wiki, Nicole Engard's del.icio.us posts in her blog, the Gov Docs Covers pool in Flickr and the Gov "Documents on Parade" YouTube videos, and the University of Baltimore's MySpace page.