Software isn’t social by nature, but the people who use
it are, and they welcome the chance to find and form
communities online. Sites like MySpace, Flickr,
Facebook, and new tools such as blogs, wikis, and IM
engage users in a new level of collaboration and
interactivity. Social software fuels the buzz behind the
concepts of Web 2.0, Interactive Web, and read/write
Web. Emily Alling, a librarian at UMass Amherst, and
Maura Deedy, GSLIS graduate student at Simmons,
examine social software inside and outside the library
and explain why it is important for librarians to be
aware of this software. The program is sponsored by
the Academic Librarians Section (ALS) and
Association of College and Research Libraries, New
England Chapter (ACRL/NEC).
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