The Effect of Facebook Adoption in an Academic Library

Giri, Rabishankar, Kar, Debal C and Sen , B K The Effect of Facebook Adoption in an Academic Library. World Digital Libraries, 2014, vol. 7, n. 2. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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The postings in library’s Facebook page were gleaned and analysed. Data of important metrics of Facebook post usage was taken from ‘Facebook Insight’ metrics of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women Library’s Facebook page. Alongside, library usage data was used to understand the change in behaviour of library usage. The findings provide further support to the view that social network sites (i.e., Facebook) have the potential to be a cost-effective means of engaging users effectively irrespective of the size of the academic library. It is also found that collaboration and communication through Facebook were far more effective than traditional approaches. Since only the experience of a single institution is considered, it cannot be generalized that Facebook will be effective in every institutional context. However, the result provides a basis for academic libraries to consider experimenting with Facebook and its page to understand its effectiveness. This paper provides evidence that such initiatives can provide a measurable impact of Facebook as an outreach tool with minimal efforts

English abstract

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Social networks, Facebook, Education, Library marketing, Academic libraries, India
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
F. Management. > FB. Marketing.
Depositing user: Dr. Rabishankar Giri
Date deposited: 27 Mar 2015 12:10
Last modified: 27 Mar 2015 12:10
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/24797

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