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Course Description
LIS 9763L-650 (Summer 2020)
Social Software and Libraries
Course Description
The term "social software" has been applied to Web-based software tools that facilitate communication, collaboration, and community-building. This course explores social software applications such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, and online social networks and assesses the role and affordances of social software in the context of library service provision.
This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.