WEB 2.0, LIBRARY 2.0: Better Change for Better future of Professional College Libraries
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2015
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Laxmi Book Publication, Maharashtra
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Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual uses, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an architecture of participation, and going beyond the page metaphor of web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences. A web 2.0 site gives its users the free choice to interact or collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, video-sharing sites, hosted services, web applications. The web has seen the explosion of social networking tools, which are empowering ordinary people to connect, collaborate and contribute in a global collaboration. These social software applications are now the hottest properties of the Internet users. This article explains the how Web 2.0 tools could be applied in academic libraries to convert them as A-Lib 2.0 or Academic Library 2.0. A few cases from different libraries which have already adopted these new services. Total academic libraries in India are using Web 2.0 Services; the major ones include IM, Blogs, RSS, Book marking, Wiki, Social Networks, etc. Library 2.0 has changed the traditional way of thinking about the profession where library only engage in creating the content and services for user shifted to the side of user where librarian will enable user to create them for themselves.
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Tiwari, Nidhi S. and Sharma, Ramnivas. "WEB 2.0, LIBRARY 2.0: Better Change for Better future of Professional College Libraries". Libraries: Traditional to Modernization. Edited by Singh, Jagjit. Maharashtra: Laxmi Book Publication, 2015.