Soni, Swati; S, Suboohi; P, Jayshree(INFLIBNET Centre, March 3, 2012)
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Abstract:
Social media website like second life, facebook and twitter reducing the saddle of librarian in all
the aspect to communicate, share and disseminate the information in appropriate time. People are
extensively using micro blogging and other social network sites to share and feed the valuable
resources within their community. Library is the heart of any educational institution could crap this
opportunity to interact with their patron in easy way by 24/7. The user perspective has tremendously
changed since last decade to access the information like faceted search, book review, rss feed,
email alert, sms alert and ranking the resource. To satisfy the modern user the library professional
to enhance the skill in web based library services such as content delivery, article or book reminder
and sms alert and so on. In this article the author has depicted about various open source tools
available for social networking service to the library community, usage and implementation.