Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Join the CARL Communications Officers Community of Practice [CommUNITY] for a discussion on the landscape of social media in post-secondary institutions.
Co-led by social media experts Maria Carroll (Memorial) and Michaela Doucette (Memorial), this event will provide an overview of social media at post-secondary institutions, including latest trends, best practices, and how to leverage the unique opportunities social media provides for communicating to library audiences. We also invite you to bring your social media questions for a lively discussion and Q&A!
Speakers:
Maria Carroll is a senior communications officer/social media advisor with Memorial University’s central marketing and communications team, where she provides strategic direction of Memorial’s social media channels. Prior to this role, she was a former recruitment officer at Marine Institute, Memorial University.
Michaela Doucette is an Indigenous archivist with the Archives and Special Collections Division, Memorial University Libraries. Michaela received her Master of Archival Studies with a First Nations Curriculum Concentration from the University of British Columbia in 2021. Michaela is passionate about dismantling the colonial barriers of archival institutions and working with Indigenous communities to accurately represent Indigenous history and culture within the archival and historical record.
Note: this session will not be recorded.
