Social networking site for OCLC members in the Americas—Have you joined?
The Americas Regional Council (ARC) is the voice of OCLC members in the Americas and it continues to find ways to engage with all members of Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States. ARC member leaders have set up a social networking site where members can post discussions, create and join groups, meet the ARC candidates, and chat about subjects important to you, as members of the cooperative and the library profession. If you are an OCLC member in the Americas, this is YOUR forum. Join now and contribute to the conversation.
Take a minute to go to: http://arcm2m.ning.com/ and register today. Or, if you just want to read what others are saying, feel free to browse the site. All discussions and comments are open to the public, though you do need to join the site to post or comment. And ARC leaders are online to help facilitate member discussions and respond to questions about the cooperative.
Features of the ARC Member-to-Member social networking site include:
- Interest Groups (join an existing group, or create a new one)
- Discussion forums
- Calendar of events
- A chat window
- News sharing
Join a newly created ARC Interest Group and start a discussion:
- Emerging technologies and cloud computing
- Reference and social networking
- Training and professional development
- America Latina y el Caribe
- Open Source/Open Access
- Resource Sharing
- Cataloging standards
- Resource discovery
- Shared collection development
We hope that the site is a useful tool for members to host conversations about ARC committees, interest groups and ongoing projects. If you have any thoughts about how to improve the site, please post your ideas here.
See you online!