Libraries – Time to get onboard with social networking or find yourselves extinct!
This paper will examine libraries and their importance in embracing the web 2.0 phenomenon of social networking. This paper will examine the importance of using social networking sites like facebook, twitter and youtube to enable libraries to “engage with students in the virtual environment”(Graham, Faix, & Hartman, 2009, p. 228) for the promotion of the library, library events and services, teaching and learning and humanising the concept of the library and librarians. This paper will also examine the importance that social networking sites have with improving professional relationships within the library profession and across the university therefore, resulting in an increase of information sharing that ensures libraries are on the forefront of changes in demands and needs of their students. If libraries fail to adopt this technology, they are in danger of finding themselves extinct.
