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crl-26322	Salomé Ibacache Oliva, Kathia; Novosel, Elizabeth; Gilbert, Stacy	Exploring Social Media as an Information Source in IL Instruction	2024	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10345	438	37	Yuqi He, and Sei-Chin Joanna Sin noted in 2013 that, while undergraduate students utilized media sharing sites such as Social Q&A and Wikis, graduate students preferred blogs.10 These authors observed that students’ majors also determined the social media platforms they utilized.11 Similarly, in 2014, Kim, Sin, and Eun Young Yoo-Lee found that students use some social media platforms as information sources, including Wikipedia and social networking sites.12 Recently, a 2021 literature review examining students’ preferences on reading formats and the use of social media information sources for academic and non-academic purposes noted that college students use social media for “class assignments and projects.”13 Three respondents did not answer this question directly; however, they displayed a pessimistic attitude towards social media, stating: “I am disgusted by social media, which pervades my instruction,” “Giving off the ‘hello fellow kids’ vibe,” and “I do not want to support social media platforms in general so I don’t want to encourage using them for any purposes…” FIGURE 4 Respondents’ Selection of Three Challenges when Using Social Media in Library Instruction 490 College & Research Libraries May 2024 Benefits When Using Social Media in Library Instruction Figure 5 shows that 55 percent of 92 respondents perceived students’ familiarity with social media as a benefit of including it in library instruction.	cache/crl-26322.pdf	txt/crl-26322.txt