Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date of this Version
Winter 2021
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Social media have become popularly use to seek information and have fascinated the library professionals to collect information in various perspectives. In the world wide there are so many acceptance regarding social media platform in college libraries. The study’s main objective is to understand the advantages of social media and find out the use of social media by the college librarians of Assam particularly during the Covid 19 situation. This study adopted a sample of 295 librarians from the zone. The results indicate that majority of librarians used social media for delivery of services. The results also demonstrated to explore integration of social networking tools with library professionals to promote library services, available content, challenges & problems faced by each library discussed. This study recommended that college libraries should adopt social media platform to enhance library services and priorities training of librarians to impart all the diverse activities of social media; provision of ICT infrastructure, power supply, internet connection to mobilize their service.