Adoption of Web 2.0 in academic libraries of top African universities

Wordofa, Kebede H.

doi:10.1108/el-07-2012-0077

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“…More extensive implementation of Web 2.0 technologies has been observed in academic and public libraries from developed countries (for example, Bertot, McDermott, Lincoln, Real, and Peterson, 2012;Chua and Goh, 2010;Kim and Abbas, 2010;Linh, 2008, Tripathi andKumar, 2010), albeit with regional differences in adoption rates and choice of applications. Use of Web 2.0 by libraries in developing regions, such as Sub-Saharan Africa (Wordofa, 2014), is also growing. Hence, although uptake persists for archives and libraries, their social media efforts are still largely experimental.…”

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Social Media in Archives and Libraries: A Snapshot of Planning, Evaluation, and Preservation Decisions

Liew

King

Oliver

2015

Preservation, Digital Technology &Amp; Culture

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This paper reports the findings from research which explored decision making and practices underpinning the implementation or non-adoption of social media in archives and libraries worldwide. Archives and libraries continue to face demands, whether from senior management, funding agencies, the government, or taxpayers to demonstrate accountability. Evaluation provides evidence to meet such demands and to gain, validate, or sustain support for programs and activities. Being able to show success is a key step for archives and libraries that need to rationalize or win support for the continuance of their social media efforts. Related to this are questions about whether or not there should be a preservation strategy for the content of social media as well as a plan for sustainability of infrastructure to support these activities. Our survey findings suggest that archives and libraries know that they are not necessarily choosing the evaluation methods that can best demonstrate the achievement of their intentions, and furthermore that they lack strategies and policies for preservation and sustainability.

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confidence: 98%

Social Media in Archives and Libraries: A Snapshot of Planning, Evaluation, and Preservation Decisions

Liew

King

Oliver

2015

Preservation, Digital Technology &Amp; Culture

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“…Wordofa (2014) and Tait et al (2016) described media sharing/collaboration as web-based services that allow people to store and share contents of various media types such as audios, videos, presentations and documents. Wordofa (2014) emphasised that some media sharing sites such as Youtube, Flickr and Slideshare have standard social networking features that provide people with the ability to share presentations, documents, PDFs and professional videos. Kwanya et al (2012) revealed that Web 2.0 has created an information sharing culture and also enriched the information services with multimedia experiences.…”

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“…Hence to remain relevant with the contemporary audiences in the academic environment, the libraries use social media to fulfil their primary responsibility of assisting users in the process of transforming information to knowledge. A substantial number of sources (Agyekum et al, 2016 ;Riza Ayu and Abrizah, 2011;Wordofa, 2014) revealed that Facebook and Twitter are employed by the libraries to build academic networks and promote the exchange of information/knowledge sharing among in the academic environments. Agyekum et al (2016) found that in Ghana, academic librarians used SNS for dissemination of library news, library events, group discussion, general library information, sharing of e-resources, and offering library resources.…”

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“…b) Lack of Institutional Control in the Academic Libraries. Institutional control is traced from the traditional librarians who are still fixed to their library routines, such as cataloguing, collection development, and the organization of their human resources in which, to them, social media platforms are regarded as not important in the library services (Wordofa, 2014). Al-Kharousi et al (2016) pointed out that low motivation of directors and library staff, lack of training and constant changes in the management structure are factors affecting the implementation of Web 2.0 applications in Omani academic libraries.…”

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“…Such tools include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, Google Plus, and Flickr. Previous studies (Agosto and Hughes-Hassell, 2005; Taylor and Francis, 2014; Wordofa, 2014; Zohoorian-Fooladi and Abrizah, 2014) have identified that these platforms are considered to be the most frequent social media tools used towards achieving the library’s objectives in this digital age. The notion that this technology is a force of “disruptive innovation” in the library sector (Mon, 2015) has been discussed extensively in the academic literature.…”

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Social media engagement in developing countries

Magoi

Aspura

Abrizah

2017

Information Development

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The progressiveness of social media in academic libraries is the gear to achieve the libraries’ objectives, particularly in term of facilities and services. In addition, academic librarians have been using social media as a key medium for marketing, communication, and collaboration. However, social media use in academic libraries, especially in developing countries, is not without controversy. Studies indicate that social networking by academic librarians is ineffective use of librarians’ time and effort. The usefulness of and the hindrances in social media engagement for academic libraries in developing countries have yet to be established. For this reason, this review aims to identify the boons and the banes of social media engagement for academic libraries in developing countries in two continents, Asia and Africa. A structured literature review was conducted using methods promulgated by the Center for Reviews and Disseminations but adapted to the particular needs of this review. Various online databases were used for the review. The keywords/phrases used for the search were: social media, web 2.0, social media engagement, academic libraries, and developing countries; and after a profound scrutiny, 50 articles were found useful for the review. The result shows that there is a continued increase of published literature on social media in academic libraries in the developing countries. A substantial amount of literature emphasises the benefits of social media usefulness in academic libraries under five major themes – marketing and promotion of library services; professional/self-development;, social interaction; media sharing; and communication. A few articles express the distress in implementing social media in academic library services. The usefulness of and the hindrances in social media engagement reported in the literature should inform practicing librarians contemplating implementation of social media and guide formal social media application in library services. More so, this study will shape Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers to scope out areas of needs for future research.

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