Presented at the Philippine Association of Academic/Research Librarians Summer Seminar-Workshop on the theme “Librarians at their Best: Envisioning and Realizing Multilevel and Progressive Readers Services” (Lyceum of Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines, 29 April - 1 May 2009)

1. Social Networking Literacy Skills: Recasting the Readers Services Librarians’ Competencies in the 21 st Century Presented at PAARL’s Summer Seminar-Workshop on the theme “Librarians at their Best: Envisioning and Realizing Multilevel and Progressive Readers Services” Lyceum of Aparri, Cagayan Valley, April 29 – May 1, 2009 By Fe Angela M. Verzosa

8. What is…

12. Social Networking Sites

15. General with 235,000,000 users General with 253,145,404 users mainly business for professionals General, popular in ASEAN countries Photo sharing, commenting, popular worldwide Video-sharing, commenting, banned in some for Music countries for blogging for Book lovers Ning - Users create their own social websites/ networks Wayn - Travel and lifestyle

21. … as Library Portals University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Portal at MySpace Library catalog search box

22. mission

23. discussionboard photos events

25. guides catalogs web

26. Book reviews

27. Univ of Indiana

28. Catalog search Photos videos polls

31. … for Marketing/Promotion University of Central Florida promotes their Ask a Librarian service through their MySpace page

32. … for Marketing/Promotion

36. … for Library Networking

37. Blog entries

38. YouTube clips Instant messaging

40. messaging blogging profile music

41. links calendar

43. … for Professional Networking Using Ning as a tool… over 2,500 librarians who belong to the Ning Library 2.0 social network

44. … for Library Outreach Reaching out to students…

45. … for Catalog Search academic libraries have created Facebook applications to enable their patrons to search their library catalogs

46. an online service to help people catalog their books easily Also connects people with same books

47. Users create their own social websites/ networks

48. mainly business for professionals

50. Music community website

51. For travel and lifestyle

52. Social networking for UST

57. Enjoys a Google PageRank of 6

59. Blogs as Library News Vehicles

61. Blogs as Subject Resources a business blog on which Binghampton University library blog about electronic reference resources, business database news, and statistical sources

63. Video-sharing for Library Orientation

64. Video-sharing for Library Tours an engaging way to introduce new students to the campus library as well as to its librarians

65. For sharing photos of events …

67. Library News on Flickr

68. Photo-sharing for Historical Collections

71. Wikis as Library Web Sites

72. Wikis as Intranets

73. Wikis as Training Tools

74. Wikis for Event Planning

75. Wikis as Subject Guides

76. … as a Reference Wiki

77. Wikis for Best Practices

78. Wikis as encyclopedic works…

79. PAARLWiki as a Library 2.0 initiative

84. Contact fe.verzosa@dlsu.edu.ph Questions?