SRELS Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue: 1

Application of web 2.0 tools in iit (Indian institute of technology) & IIM (Indian institute of management) libraries of India: A study

  • Author:
  • Rupak Chakravarty1, Kiran Chopra2
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 35 to 40

1Assistant Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh160014, INDIA. E-mail: rupak2811@gmail.com, rupak@pu.ac.in.

2Research Scholar, Department of Library & Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh160014, INDIA.

Online published on 13 February, 2013.

Abstract

Internet's rapid growth and broad penetration, along with affordable enabling Web 2.0 technologies, has not only democratized access to information but also catalyzed open access publishing which has contributed to the explosion of freely available digital information. The paper describes how the IIT and IIM Libraries provide access to their collection and user support for all that access using Web 2.0 technologies such as synchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wiki and social networking.

Keywords

Web 2.0, Blogs, Wiki, RSS, Instant messaging, Social networking