Awareness on Social Media among the LIS Professionals in the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka: A Study

Shilpa Uplaonkar; Kalikadevi G. Badiger

doi:10.51983/ijiss.2018.8.3.547

Authors

Shilpa Uplaonkar Assistant Librarian & Assistant Professor, University Library, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishinagar, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
Kalikadevi G. Badiger Library Assistant, University Library, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishinagar, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/ijiss.2018.8.3.547

Keywords:

Twitter, Blog, Yahoo, Whatsapp, YouTube, Google , Face book and Social media, LIS Professionals

Abstract

The present paper focuses on the explore of social media such as Face book, Twitter, Whatsapp, etc. to work as an effective tool for imparting information or knowledge and prove helpful in making awareness among Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals of University Libraries of University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad as most important aspect of social mediaas its emphasis on online collaboration and sharing because it has social networking, user centric characteristics. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire that was circulated among the LIS Professionals of University Libraries of University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad randomly. Present article reports the survey of social media, in making awareness among LIS Professionals. Analysis will help the LIS professionals in deriving the benefits of Social media.

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