Social Media Curation (Library Technology Reports)

Library Technology Reports (vol.50, no.7) Librarians have always curated. Today, as human filters, librarians address the proverbial Internet fire house. This issue of Library Technology Reports (vol.50, no.7), "Social Media Curation," considers curation as it is popularly applied to activities that leverage the power of social media to collect, organize, share, and interpret content to tell a digital story for a specific audience. It provides a snapshot of the state of digital curation using social media across libraryland and shares ideas from a few social media curation thought leaders slightly beyond the library community. It presents new models for practitioners. And it offers a springboard from which further exploration of these efforts can emerge and be studied.

Joyce Kasman Valenza is assistant professor at Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, where she teaches courses in school library management and social media and is director of the MLS program. She has worked as a special, public, and school librarian. Currently she writes the NeverEnding Search blog for School Library Journal and also writes VOYA s Tag Team Tech column.



Brenda L. Boyer is chair of the Information and Technology Resources department for the Kutztown Area School District (PA), where she also serves as the high school librarian. She teaches information fluency and research skills in both brick-and-mortar and online settings, and has also taught graduate LIS courses as an adjunct at Kutztown University (PA). Besides social media curation, her research interests include embedded librarianship, inquiry models, and online learning.



Della Curtis retired in 2013 as coordinator of the Office of Library Information Services, Baltimore County Public Schools (MD), where she provided district leadership in library information and information technologies for 169 Pre-K 12 school library media programs.