Do you question or wonder what the role of social media is in learning? Do you really wonder if it is an effective way to teach students, or library patrons about information literacy, how to use the library and other things important for librarians and for life-long information skills?

The Social Learning Handbook is here to help. This website offers a wealth of information and testimonials as well as experiences from other librarians and educators on how to use and how they have used social media in learning.

In addition here are a few ideas on how to make social media useful for learning:

1. Find ways to use social media sites such as facebook to teach your students or other patrons how to search library databases, find books in your library catalog, understand what information literacy is and other things important for them to know.

2. Incorporate social media aspects into your everyday library activities and information literacy presentations.

3. Consider offering mini-courses on various aspects of social media and how to use it for learning or marketing purposes.

4. Invite your patrons to ask you questions about social media.

5. Stay up to date with learning about social media yourself.

What other ideas do you have for how social media plays a role in learning and how it will play a role in the future?