A Survey of the Application of Web 2.0 in Top 30 Chinese University Libraries

Author

Si, Li ; Shi, Ruoyao ; Chen, Bijuan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Manage., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

Nov. 30 2009-Dec. 1 2009

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

138

Abstract

This paper takes the top 30 Chinese university libraries as a sample, and investigates the application of Web 2.0 technologies including RSS, Wiki, Blog, Tag/Folksonomy, IM, Podcast/Vodcast, Toolbar and Ajax. The results show that there are two-thirds of libraries adopting one or more Web 2.0 technologies. Only one-tenth of libraries adopting more than four Web 2.0 technologies. RSS was the most widely applied technology and Wiki was the least used one. The application of Web 2.0 technologies was not extensive and profound enough and was still in the early stage of development. The main reason lies in some shortcomings of technology application, librarian quality, service marketing and information literacy and etc.

Keywords

Internet; academic libraries; Ajax; Blog; Chinese university libraries; IM; Podcast/Vodcast; RSS; Tag/Folksonomy; Toolbar; Web 2.0 technologies; Wiki; information literacy; librarian quality; service marketing; Availability; Digital audio broadcasting; Information management; Information services; Knowledge acquisition; Libraries; Paper technology; User interfaces; Web and internet services; Web sites; Chinese university library; Web 2.0 application;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling, 2009. KAM '09. Second International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3888-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KAM.2009.49

Filename

5362234