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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ825201 |
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- Academic Libraries, Facebook and MySpace, and Student Outreach: A Survey of Student Opinion Connell, Ruth Sara Student Attitudes Privacy Academic Libraries Profiles Social Networks Librarians Student Surveys College Freshmen Computer Mediated Communication Computer Uses in Education Web Sites Internet This study surveyed 366 Valparaiso University freshmen to discover their feelings about librarians using Facebook and MySpace as outreach tools. The vast majority of respondents had online social network profiles. Most indicated that they would be accepting of library contact through those Web sites, but a sizable minority reacted negatively to the concept. Because of the potential to infringe on students' sense of personal privacy, it is recommended that librarians proceed with caution when implementing online social network profiles. (Contains 30 notes and 2 figures.)