The Networked Librarian by Lee Rainie

The Networked Librarian Video

In viewing this lecture by Lee Rainie I learned a lot of new terms and statistics about social media.  The term I enjoyed the most was Tweckle which the definition is to abuse a speaker to twitter followers in the audience while he/she is speaking.  In other words to tweckle is to heckle through Twitter.  I had to replay that part a few times and it made me laugh because I always ask my students at the end of a lesson if they have any question, comments, concerns, or heckling.  The term social posse was also new to me in which people are assemble like a flash mob but through social networking in order to perform a job.  I can see how this can be useful in the case of find people that are lost or have been kidnapped.  But the potential for personal information to be compromised is highly probable and could lead to legal issues.  The terms 4th estate and 5th estate made me think of new and old media.  The 4th estate is the old media created by professionals in which facts are checked before becoming viable for public consumption.  Whereas the 5th estate is the new media in that any persons stream of consciousness or word vomit as I like to call it can be published for all to read at any given moment.

The statistics that I enjoyed they most were these:

• 48% of Adults say that relevance and digital literacy are their reasons for not going online
• 48% of Americans are on Social Networks
• 57% of Adults connect to the internet wirelessly
• 1 in 4 Adults use Apps
• 35% of Americans have Apps on there phone
• 24% of Americans actually use Apps
• 61% of those ages 14-24 use Social Networking added by Libraries for School
• 63% of Americans used Library Connections to help others

My favorite quote from the lecture is that "The Library as a place has become the Library as a placeless resource."  In other words our patrons used to come to us and now we as a Library and Librarians are going to them.