Changing the Way We Do Business

摘要

As information professionals become more active in online networking, they must balance personal interests with professional goals. Networking begins with making connections and aims to keep them over the long term. To many people today, networking means participating in online forums for sharing information, discussing issues or socializing. For information professionals, networking encompasses all of these goals but is also an important part of career and professional development. Today's new information professionals and library students started using social networking tools in their early years, still participate in them now, and expect to continue using them in their professional environment. Established information professionals also use online social networking services, and many associations (including SLA) offer social networking applications for use within a professional context. Many professions, including lawyers, journalists and librarians, are now using social networking as an important part of identifying sources, experts, witnesses, and more.