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Hi everyone -- I just wanted to post a quick update here because I've been having some problems with my email recently (which just became apparent last night):

Welcome to the final week of LIS 9763! I know you are all busy working on your final projects, so we’ll keep things fairly light this week:

Welcome to Week 13!

This week is the last of our "content" weeks where we turn our attention to one of the biggest 2.0 trends -- media sharing. As you probably know, media sharing refers to sites that facilitate sharing of various media, like images and video files. Media sharing, both as a trend, and as a technology, has the potential to have a big impact on libraries, so I'm eager to hear your thoughts on what libraries can do with the tools, as well as the issues libraries need to be aware of around media sharing. All content for this week is here.

Hi everyone - I have to switch up our chat day to Wednesday this week, my apologies. I forgot all about a committment I have on Thursday evening. Hope this doesn't pose too much of a problem for anyone!

So, to confirm, we'll be having our course chat on Wednesday, July 16th (in this chat room). Thanks for understanding!

I really enjoyed all the spirited discussion around social networks on your blogs last week! Hopefully you'll find this week's content similarly engaging, as this week, we turn our attention to gaming & virtual worlds. Digital gaming & virtual worlds are currently having a substantial impact on education and libraries, so our goal for

...And we're back. Hope you all had a great Reading Week and are ready to tackle the last 5 weeks of term!

This week we're moving on to online social networks, where we will focus our attention on the ways in which libraries can use social networking tools for communication and outreach (and if they even should!). You can find all the readings, case studies, and activities for the week right here.

Just one reminder this week: our course chat is on Wednesday, July 9th at 8 pm. See you in the chat room!

Hi everyone - just a quick reminder that next week is Reading Week, so you won't be hearing from me on the blog! I will be around though, cathing up on marking group projects (apologies for the delay in getting this done), so if you're around and would like to chat about anything, you know where to find me.

Have a great week, everyone!

On to week 8! This week we're taking a closer look at folksonomies, which builds directly on last week's conversations around Social Bookmarking & Tagging. This week we look at the advantages and limitations of folksonomies & distributed classification, paying particular attention to how these trends impact libraries and library services (such as OPACs). All content for this week is right here.

Here are a couple of reminders for this week: