Collaborative academic librarians and conducting research on social media in Canada: introducing the Social Media Research Team (SMeRT)

Abstract

This article is an overview of a new collaborative venture at the University of British Columbia (UBC) that brings together a group of student and professional academic librarians from across Canada called the Social Media Research Team (SMeRT). We currently have six member librarians in the group who are either studying librarianship or working as professional librarians in various public service and research positions in libraries and academia from coast to coast (in Vancouver, British Columbia out west to Halifax, Nova Scotia in the east):