Friday 16 March 2012

A social lunch



The Cambridge Libraries Brown Bag/networking/journal discussion lunch on 4 April will be at the Faculty of Classics.  Inspired by Andy Priestner's Twitter for Research session, which he has summarised in his blog, I have chosen an article on Social Media and set up a little survey to gauge your twitter usage. 

The article for discussion is:

Nicholas, David, et al. "Social Media, Academic Research and the Role of University Libraries", The Journal of Academic Librarianship, v.37, no. 5, 373-375 available via ScienceDirect. 

If you would like to read more the first reference in the article is an interesting CIBER report on social media impact on research.

As a little added extra for those of you on twitter I have put together a form where you can analyse the contents of your tweets.  I have given options for recording them for one day, one week or having a guesstimate or just summarising what you do if you don't have time to check all your tweets.  I have followed some of the headings devised by G. Veletsianos in his research project on twitter usage by academics in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.

I thought it might be interesting to summarise the results at the lunch and get the debate started.  Even if you can't come to the lunch do please fill in the form - remembering that this is for fun so don't agonise over the questions!



Finally the venue details : the lunch will be in room 1.11 at the Faculty of Classics.  Room available from 1.00, bring your lunch, and discussion starts at 1.15 finishing at 2.00.   Will try to live-tweet using #cambbl for those who can't make it but would still like to join in.

Hope to see some of you there.

3 comments:

  1. I'll be on holiday then so can't make the lunch unfortunately, but it sounds really interesting and I've filled in the survey. Looking forward to seeing the results!

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  2. Not sure if I can make it to the discussion, but have answered the survey!

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  3. thanks - I will post a summary of the results for those who can't get to the meeting but who might be interested.

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