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Article Name :
USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: ROLE OF THE LIBRARY
Author Name :
Bedadyuti Sahoo
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-396
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Abstract :
Social Networking site is a collaborative platform for an individual or group of individuals for sharing information and getting contact with the known people in the society. Simultaneously, it is also a very good platform for the working professionals in the library to share their knowledge and disseminate resources to the users in an east and cost effective manner, without killing their precious time as the ethics of the library philosophy in the fourth law of library science as a whole. It is the unchanged form of the messenger in the monarchical society and the role of the in-land letter prior to the age of short mail service (SMS) and mobile services in the ICT age. This paper is based upon the use of social networking sites and the scope provided by the library to its users in the present day information scenario.
Keywords :
  • social networking
  • short mail service
  • ict
  • educational libraries
  • chat
  • file sharing
  • blog