Thing 14 is about the professional website ‘Linked In’. This basically follows the same format of other social networking sites, but the difference here is this website focusses more on the professional side rather than the ‘social’ side. Here it’s main focus is helping people in the employment sector, providing the necessary tools to aid the likelihood of employment (both as a means of looking for and providing employment and/or training etc)

If I think of how this can be useful for the libraries, it would be good for advertising job posts. With the Social Science Library for example, this would be quite useful as they do advertise jobs available more frequent than other libraries.
I have signed up to the website and entered some information on to my personal profile. I personally don’t think I would be using the site at this point in time, as I am already currently in employment. But I can see how this would useful for people who are searching for work/training. Although, i’m too sure about random people knowing a lot about you through your profile. I haven’t had any stalkers yet though.

This is my ‘Linked in’ profile:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/hennamirza