ISSN 2348-1218 (print) International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations ISSN 2348-1226 (online) Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp: (68-79), Month: October - December 2020, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
WEB 2.0 TOOLS APPLICATIONS AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY USERS: A SURVEY 1 1
Mr. S. A. Dhande, 2Dr. R. R. Paithnkar
Librarian, Vaidyanath College Parli-Vaijanath, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad, Maharashtra. 2
Librarian and Research Guide, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada, University, Nanded (Maharashtra)
Abstract: This paper presents the University Library Users and their views about web 2.0 such as Social networking, Social Media, It is a survey through Maharashtra University Library users, such as what they use, times spends on web 2.0 tools, which are their preferred tools and purpose of using these web 2.0 tools, their expectation from library services. This paper Library and Information Professional could suggest deciding upgrades their services to reach the users. Keywords: Web 2.0, Social Media, Information Services, University Library services, Facebook, Youtube, User Behaviour.
I. INTRODUCTION Information and technology tools and its application in various sections in social life have impacted tremendously on society. Now a day most of the users have smart mobile devices with internet connection in his hands. Library users are changing its reading habit with printing to digital most of the research materials are in electronic form, like e-journals ebooks and hence the University library is providing resources. Web 2.0 application by users are the topic of research most of the users are available on Social media tools like facebook, Tweeter, youtube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Blogs and other web 2.0 application. This study found the use of the social media and other web 2.0 tools by university users in Maharashtra. This is the study of library users, as survey conducted by the structured questionnaire with aim to find out user‟s web 2.0 tools using behavior and its purpose of use.
II. WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND APPLICATION Emerging ICT, and web technology it is very easy to search and retrieve information. To reach right information to proper users, web 2.0 technologies, artificial intelligence work together. World Wide Web and Semantic web are also needed to work on the web 2.0 applications. Web 1.0: Tim Berner Lee the person who developed the web considered web1.0 as, read-only web. Web 1.0 is the first generation of the web. Web 1.0 began as information put for businesses to transmit their product information to people WWW allowed users only to search and read information available on the internet. At present presence on the www/ internet make it possible of availability of information to right time. (Aghaei Sareh, at al. (2012)).Web 2.0: Basically, it is a two-way communication on website between website owners to users. It like Web 2.0 is second generation web which is collaborative, participative Web 2.0 tools. Which could be very useful in apply by Libraries and Library services. Traditional libraries are playing role as knowledge storehouse, and traditional services are running each library, Book circulation, Reference service, Cataloguing, Serial Access, Newspapers clippings, Somewhere, Indexing, Translation, and Abstracting. Web 2.0 could be helpful to overcome information gap and time gap between these services. Blogs: Blog is online diaries maintained by an individual or company itself. It is a regular communication between creator and users about things happened, topics commentary, description of event or other study materials such as pictures, videos. Blogs are arranged in reverse chronological order “The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase weblog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999” (en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Blog, 2020). The users are using blogs for their study some blogs are specialized in their subject of discipline and provide some authentic information for the users. WIKIS: It is a collaborative intelligence all over the world wiki is a
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