Abstract
The new era of big data speeds up the development of information technology, social media has become an integral part of peopleÂs daily life and changed the way of communication between individuals. Currently, social media has been applied to education in many disciplines, there is also no exception to Library and Information Science (LIS) education. ChinaÂs LIS education is undergoing profound changes, which is more necessary to improve the quality of LIS education with the help of high-tech products. Firstly, this study gave a brief introduction to social media and past literature regarding social media applications in LIS education worldwide. Secondly, a survey on the relationship between social media and LIS education was carried out to analyze the views from two consecutive MLIS graduates from Information Management School at Heilongjiang University (HLJU). Thirdly, an actual teaching case using QQ series software was exposed keeping in view the feature of social mediaÂs application in LIS courses. Finally, some suggestions were given based on the results of the above thorough analysis.
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