Scoop.it is a social media tool which was completely off my radar
before I began the Social Media unit of the Library, Information and Cultural
services course at Victoria University.
In this modern world, Scoop.it is such a great curatorial tool for
libraries. The whole world has gone digital and everyone’s attention is online.
Now days if you want to do research or learn something new, you rarely turn to
a book but hit google instead.
Scoop.it is a great way for libraries to remain relevant to their
internet savvy users. If anything it is just another way of catering to patrons
needs for information and knowledge.
With Scoop.it you can collect and categorise articles from all over the
web. It is kind of like Pinterest, only you can read the full article from Scoop.it and the focus is on the information not on the image.
None of the libraries I use have a Scoop.it account, and now that I am
aware of the existence of Scoop.it I kind of wish they did. I would be very
interested to see what they would share, considering the interesting things
they post through their current social media accounts.
Thing 14:Curating with Pinterest, Tumblr, and Scoop.it provides some interesting insights into the different
social media curating tools used by libraries:
“Curatorial tools give users easy ways in which to gather their favourite
interests across the internet and host all the pictures, recipes,
conversations, news articles, links, videos in one place.”
“Scoop.It is a ‘create your own magazine’ service which allows you to
‘clip’ from websites, Twitter, RSS feeds, YouTube, Slideshare, Facebook,
and custom Google searches. It allows you to enter sources and it
then provides suggestions for you to Scoop It and add commentary for
customizable topics based magazines.”
The blog Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians
provides an interesting blog post called Content Curation Tools 1: ScoopIt!
The Daring Librarian also provides an
interesting blog post about curating using Scoop.it called DigitalCuration & Sweet Scoopage
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