From friending to research: Using Facebook as a teaching tool.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Pemberton, Anne
- Source
- College & Research Libraries News; January 2011, Vol. 72 Issue 1, p28-30, 3p
- Subject
- Meta Platforms Inc.
Library science
Library catalogs
Databases
Right of privacy
Instructional systems
- Language
- ISSN
- 00990086
The author offers suggestions for using Facebook as an instructional tool on library research. She claims that it can be complicated to explain a library's online catalog or a subscription database. She recommends relating the library catalog or database to Facebook. She states that one can associate the development of a search strategy, advanced searching and the idea of a subscription to searching Facebook. She claims that Facebook can be used to explain the concept of privacy as practiced in libraries.