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Impact of Social Media in Disseminating of Information in the Libraries of Higher Education

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dc.contributor.author Shivraj, K.S.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-11-10T05:09:53Z
dc.date.available 2016-11-10T05:09:53Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Shivraj, K.S. 2016. Impact of Social Media in Disseminating of Information in the Libraries of Higher Education. 1st International Conference on Library and Information Management (ICLIM - 2016), 21st - 22nd October 2016, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 117. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-704-003-5
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/15013
dc.description.abstract Social Media (SM) has released a new platform for the Librarians to disseminate information. This paper is to investigate how the libraries and data applications are utilizing Social Media tools for disseminating the right information around the Globe. The social media has steadily slunk into the library profession with Social positions such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Library Thing, Ning; it has become evident that the Library services will need to change to meet the growing needs of the Library end users. The Academic Libraries have been challenged like never before to render more proactive and more value added services to meet the ever changing needs of the student community. Colleges and universities are beginning to embrace social media and realizing the potential power and implications for using it as a component of their overall marketing mix. Libraries ought to assume vital parts in teaching benefactors about the new advances and the interpersonal interaction aptitudes. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Social Media in Libraries en_US
dc.subject Information Dissemination en_US
dc.subject Higher Educational Libraries en_US
dc.title Impact of Social Media in Disseminating of Information in the Libraries of Higher Education en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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