International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science
 

International Journal of Academic Library and Information Science

Vol. 6(3), pp. 46–49, May, 2018. 

ISSN: 2360-7858

DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2018.012

Full Length Research

Purpose

The purpose of the paper is to discovered the recent trends in the application of the Web 2.0 purposes and features as exemplified through national library web sites around the world.

Design/Methodology/approach

In Asian continent collected 52 countries, out of them we found 46 countries owning national libraries.  Overall, 42 national libraries are accessed URL’s remaining 4 national libraries are non-accessible. On the whole 28 with 66.6 percent of the  national library websites from Asia selected for data collection. Content analysis methods used for data collection and Checklist used for the main research instrument. (see Figure 1)

Findings

Results revealed that the National Library of Israel is leading in the adoption of the Web 2.0 tools and technologies in Asia (See Table 1). 17 national libraries are adopting social networking sites, followed by 16 national libraries applied RSS, 11 national libraries used Mashups, 6 national libraries used Vodcasts, 5 national libraries used Blog and 2 national libraries used Instant Messaging tool (See Table 2). And overall 17 national libraries adopted Social Networking Sites tool with in that 10 national libraries effectual adopted SNS in their websites for various purposes and features (See Table 3).

Research limitations/implications

The findings of the study can be utilized to assess the status of assorted Web 2.0 tools used in Asian National libraries. It may enable future research to investigate other aspects, such as the adoption of Web 2.0 tools in Museum library, oriental library or reference library of a particular country as well as continents.

Originality/Value

The research paper begins with an evaluating of Web 2.0 in a wide scope continent of Asian country’s national libraries implemented various types of Web 2.0 technologies, like Social networking sites, RSS, Blog, Mashups, Instant messaging etc.

Keywords:  World Wide Web, Web 2.0, National Libraries, Asian Countries, Continent

Cite This Article As: Cite This Article As: Kannikaparameshwari G, Chandrashekara, M (2018). An Evaluation Study of the Application of Web 2.0 in Asian National Libraries. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 6(3): 46-49

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