Social Networking Phenomenon and Its Use in Libraries / Fenomen društvenih mreža i njegova primjena u knjižnicama

Abstract

Social media phenomenon has changed the way people communicate. Facebook has become the world's most popular social networking site. It did not take long for libraries, as cultural and educational institutions, to recognize its importance and start using it for the promotion of their activities and improvement of their services. The purpose of this research is to determine the frequency and types of Croatian public libraries' presence on Facebook. The paper analyses the nature of their presence, metric indicators, and activities on selected Facebook applications. The results are compared to previous studies conducted in Croatia and in the world. The conclusion brings a number of fundamental recommendations concerning the presence of public libraries on Facebook.Facebook is currently the most popular social networking site (SNS). Although it was originally designed as a means of communication among individuals, various institutions have, over time, also joined the network. Libraries were among the first institutions to recognize all the possibilities SNS offers. Wanting to be where their users are, they started using the network in order to improve their relations and communication with their users, other libraries, library associations and all other institutions and individuals important for library practice and management.Six years after Facebook had been opened to the public, five years after the launch of Facebook Pages, at the moment when Facebook has more than a billion monthly active users, a question arises -do libraries benefit from Facebook? The answer to the question calls for detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses of all the library

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