Thursday, February 12, 2009

University Purchases GradShare

A few days ago I saw this announcement in American Libraries Direct and clipped it for inclusion in my Dean’s Update.

An online community for graduate students
Steven Bell writes: “A potential source of help for grad students may be a new online community developed by ProQuest for graduate students called GradShare (in beta, of course). According to an interview with a GradShare spokesperson, ‘Gradshare will become a way for graduate students to use peer mentoring to get answers to questions that they’re either not comfortable asking their advisors or unable to ask their advisors.’”...ACRLog, Jan. 30; Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 29

Just a few hours later I saw this announcement that UK had become one of the first members of the new social network. http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=4343

Should be interesting to explore what the possible options for involvement there are for the Libraries.

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