Social networking is a potent tool, not only for librarians but also for educators. I see it as a logical extension to online content probrams like Blackboard, because students have at their hands another method for communicating information related to assignments, study related networking and communication with faculty and fellow students.
Indeed libraries should have social networking pages, both as a general means of communicating and also for special projects. For instance, information literacy programs could benefit from a combination of blogs, wikis and social networking applications.
As with any internet based activity, security must be a concern. Use the same precautionary measures you would apply to any WEB based forum.
I was most impressed with the "democratization" of information access provided by social networking applications. With this new freedom comes both opportunities and risks (both obvious - greater access to information on the one hand and security issues on the other). The best precaution one can take is the judicial use of "computer # 1", your own common sense, when utilizing any of these resources.
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