Asst. Prof. Dr. Wawta Techataweewan
Department of Library and Information Science
Faculty of Humanities, Srinakharinwirot University

 QR code
 Ubiquitous technology
 Mobile technology

 Cloud computing
 Web 2.0, Web 3.0…

The second generation development anddesign of web to facilitate communicationand secure information sharing Marketing To push information to users and public in up-to-date way
 To meet the various users, especially the youths, who thoseare on the Internet
 To guide the users to their appropriate information sources Managing the Internet information
 Monitoring what discussion about the library Employing any tasks with easy way
 Saving the budget Blog / Weblog
 Library Wiki RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
 Podcast File sharing
 Tagging / Folksonomy
 OPAC 2.0
 Instant messaging
 Web mapping Social networking
 Social bookmarking
 Virtual 3D game

Information Push/Pull

BlogPodcast

RSSWiki

Virtual
3D games

Information
RetrievalTagging
OPAC 2.0

Information Exchange

InstantMessaging

SocialNetworking

MediaSharing

SocialBookmarking

Webmapping(Chua, Goh & Lee. (2008). The Prevalence and use of Web 2.0 in libraries. p. 24)

 In 2005, the usage of libraries fell by 50% andin 2007, library usage fell another 20% (De Rosa, etal, 2007).

 Web 2.0 promotes participatory networking

where librarians and users can communicate,collaborate, and generate content (Chau & Goh, 2010).
 Many libraries implementing Web 2.0
applications to promote their services andactivities.

http://libguides.mit.edu/rss

LibraryWikis

Washington State University Library: Podcasts and Videocasts services

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/science/podcast.htm

Social bookmarking on Delicious
University of Georgia Library, Cataloging Department

Virtual Bracken Library (http://idiarts.org/projects/28)

 To study and compare academic librarians’

perceptions and use of Web 2.0
Independent variables

Dependent variables

Academic Librarians
 Personality
 Computer skills
 Availability ofInternet facilities

Web 2.0
 Perceptions
 Usage A sample group, drawn by random sampling,

comprises 318 librarians who work at university
libraries in Bangkok.
 The research instruments were the personality
characteristic test based on introversionextraversion model in the Eysenck Personality
Questionnaire (EOQ), a computer competency
test and questionnaires.
 Data was gathered in the summer of 2011 (AprilJune 2011).

 The 318 academic librarians were mostly

female (92.50%), between 50 and 60 years
old, working in technical services and holding
Master Degrees.
 Their personality characteristics revealed that
51.6% were introverted and 48.4% wereextraverted.
 Overall, they had moderate levels ofcomputer ability skills.

 The academic librarians reported having

access to Internet facilities at a moderatelevel (48.74%), good level (44.34%) and low
level (6.92%), respectively.
 Their perceptions of Web 2.0 was in thecomprehension stage, but their use of Web
2.0 was at low level.

 Extraverted librarians used Web 2.0 more

frequently than introverted librarians.
 Librarians with different abilities of computer
usage exhibited different levels of perception
and use of Web 2.0.
 Librarians with high ability of computer usage
had a higher level of perception and use ofWeb 2.0 than those with average or low
abilities.

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