iLibrarian: What Librarians Offer in the Social Media World

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2011/what-librarians-offer-in-the-social-media-world/

Steve Petersen at the Bivings Report follows up his The Internet has made you an honorary librarian post with this one titled Librarians offer plenty in a social media world. He lists the following ways that librarians and information professionals add value to today’s social Web:

1. Confronting the filters that search engines use to narrow our browsing experience
2. Finding less accessible information
3. Searching better — even using those pesky library databases
4. Improving tagging
5. Understanding intellectual property issues
6. Compiling lists of reliable sources of information
7. Teaching information literacy