How do you cite a Tweet?

There is a correct way, as The Modern Language Association explains.  (This newspaper article, by Alexis C. Madrigal for The Atlantic, was tweeted to Whittaker by research-support guru The Thesis Whisperer.)

How to cite a tweet in academic papers (this is a bloglink)

This is so useful, it has to be shared around!  'Whittaker' didn't author this - we're just passing on the good news.

http://edudemic.com/2012/03/how-to-cite-a-tweet-in-academic-papers/

Edudemic picked this up from the Modern Language Association, which makes it very authoritative indeed.

Library staff at large

Cellos and Bellows

If it seems as though there are more librarians around the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland than usual this afternoon - it's true.  Friday 18th May is the day for 'Cellos and Bellows', a tweetup arranged for librarians to visit our library, and then the Glasgow Piping Centre.  So the Whittaker Library will see a sudden influx of librarians and then - like the tide receding - they'll all drift off to visit the Piping Centre's refurbished library.  (And hear the pipes.  Cover your ears!)

Who said library staff were quiet?

Win an amazing day….and a lifetime of listening!

 http://theshowmustgo.com/2011/11/09/win-an-amazing-day-and-a-lifetime-of-listening/

"To celebrate the launch of The Show Must Go On, our friends at the Royal Opera House and EMI Classics have put their heads together to create a Show VIP Package Prize. The winner will receive two tickets to an end-of-year show at The Royal Opera House, a backstage VIP tour and ‘A Festival of Ballet’ collection of 50 CDs from EMI Classics, featuring music from Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

The competition will take place on Twitter – you’ll find us @showgametweets. All we ask is that you send us your crazy tales of your show experiences. Whether it’s that time you had to deliver dentures to Someone Quite Famous’ dressing room during a work experience stint or the evening you watched Peter Pan fly into the audience and hover there while stage crew scrambled to keep the show on track- we want to hear them! The best #showtales will be collated and we’ll be very picky about our winner… the biggest challenge of all? Making us laugh with an anecdote of just 140 characters."

DISCLAIMER:- Whittaker is telling you about this out of the kindness of 'his' heart, but this is a competition run by the Royal Opera House and EMI Classics. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Whittaker Library.

When to blog, when to tweet?

Blogs are more discursive, and give the chance to pull info together from different sources.  Like my WhittakerLive posting on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland namechange, or my separate pages on Minstrels and Metaphors.

Tweets are great for single, punchy comments or notifications, and messages to individuals or all followers. And that's why I both blog and tweet, but I have an RSS feed from Twitter to Blogspot, so you can catch up with me both ways!

By the way, you might be interested in Leonard Cassuto's blogpost about academic blogging, in the Guardian Professional's Higher Education Network (advice, insight, and best practice from the community). Does blogging help progress for an early career academic?  Read it here.