Uncovering the role of social media tools for knowledge sharing among the Indian Library Professionals among the Indian Library Professionals (original) (raw)
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2021
Internet and its use have become ubiquitous and its tremendous growth has given way to Social networking sites evolved as the most popular medium of communication. The present study on the kind of information shared, motives and benefits for sharing information as well as the problems encountered while Sharing Knowledge through SNS. There were 652 responses obtained through an online questionnaire. The percentage approach was used for data analysis. The results found that 99.5% of the respondents from the Library and Information science access the internet for various purposes. 66.4% of respondents share valuable information with friends and 62.5% with the community. 47.2% share both videos and audios with friends, 35.6% share information in Newsletter mode, 44.3% and 61.5% share posts and presentations using SNS. 94.2% deem sharing valuable content as a major motivational factor. 94% agreed that SNS use for communicating and interacting with friends; 90.5% strongly agreed SNS use for online learning and establishing contact with subject experts. 87.7% and 78.3% agreed for getting updated information in their area of interest and for sharing new ideas to get solutions for research questions. Overall, the respondents have derived a great benefit by SNS platforms. For SNS us issues, 95% of respondents agreed that 'the data security' and 'privacy breach' while sharing content in social media. 68.6% of respondents also agreed that 'internet addiction' and 'cyber-crime' are the two major issues faced by the professionals. The study suggests LIS professional play a better role in the knowledge sharing cycle.
Social Networking Sites Usage by Library and Information Professionals in India: A Study
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VALUE AND USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY (SNT) IN INDIAN LIBRARIES – A STUDY
Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are becoming an integral part of life all the educated peoples. Now a Day Social media are mainstreams all the activities. Facebook and Twitter have more than 900 million users. Many businesses, cultural organizations and some institutions are leveraging social media to achieve their strategic goals. A review of the literature across library and non-library sectors will investigate the current social media environment relating to strategy, communication and engagement. This Social Networking Technology (SNT) is offering one of the opportunities to reach library users. This SNSs provide an innovative and effective way of connecting users. Most of the International University Libraries have attached a link of a social networking site to their library’s web pages. In this paper describes Social Networking Definition, Values, Benefits of Social Networking Sites to Indian Libraries, Features of Social Networking Services in Library, Practicing Social Networking in Library Services, Challenges Using Social Networking in Libraries and Future roles of Librarians. And this paper explains how this Social Network will help the major library and information services. Such as Information Communication, Information Delivery and knowledge organization. KEYWORDS: Social Networking Technology, Information Communication, Knowledge Organization, Indian Library, Digital Library, Social Media`s.
Social media is playing an important role for dissemination of information to the society. In 21'1 century most of the people have a smart phone and used different social media tools like Face book, Twitter, Instagram, Whats App, Skype etc. in day today life. It is rapidly growing web based tool for everyone to share thoughts, ideas and knowledge globally using internet. The study highlights the current use of social media tools for promoting library and information services of Library and Information Professionals of India, which are working in Library. The study was conducted during November, 2017. A structure questionnaire was prepared using Google does and shared using different mailing list, sent to individual email IDs and sharing with other social media tools. Only 90 responses received from the different states of India and analyzed via MS-Excel. The results revealed that out 90 respondents 37 are female and 53 male categories and majority of the respondents 71 come from academic library followed by special library 15, Public library 3 and corporate library 1 respondent. The study indicates that, out of 90 respondents' majority of the respondents 53 said that their Library have a social media account while 39 respondents have not asocial media account of their Library. The study also inform that Face book, YouTube, Google+, Linkedln, twitter and Instagram are used by the LIS professional of India and Face book 86 was popular social media tool among the other social media tools. The study furthermore identified that lack of time is the major problem while using social media with 53 of respondents followed by low speed of intern et 35,too many social media tools to learn 17 and some 3 respondents reported that there is no problem while using social media tools.
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The paper describes the use and usage patterns of social media and social networking sites in higher education libraries. The purpose of this paper is to study the users of social media in higher academic institutions and to determine the awareness about social media among librarians of higher academic institutions. The social media is a paradigm has led to the development of some of the successful practises among the librarians and leads to the delivery of information to the end users. The result shows that, social media are widely used for the development of institutional reputation and dissemination of information among the users and the social media applications and sites are gaining importance in the Indian scenario also.
USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS BY LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS
IASET, 2020
In this modern era of information technology, social media is the key factor for communication with library users. It has created a new platform for librarians to supply library services in an effective and innovative way. In this paper an attempt has been made to know the utility of internet commutation sites among library professionals. The study also identifies the perception among library professionals with regard to importance of these multimedia tools. The study is based on survey research method using questionnaire as a tool. For designing questionnaire comprehensive review of the literature was conducted by using different websites, blogs and search engines. The College Librarians of Government colleges of Madhya Pradesh in Jabalpur Division participated. In Jabalpur division there are six districts Seoni, Balaghat, Mandla, Dindori, Katni, Chhindwara, were put under this study. The structured questionnaire was distributed among 95 Librarians. Hundred percent responses were received from the respondents. The questions related to social networking tools were based on the theme of the study.