The Impact of Social Media in the Library Service

  • Kasimani. C Anna Centenary Library Chennai, Tamil Nadu India
  • Kasilingam. K P.T. Lee. Chengalvaraya Naicker College of Engineering and Technology Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu India

Abstract

Every one of the individual in the world deep fall down in a medium to communicate with people in remote areas. The people using the social media in India will increase day by day. In the current social media tools have become important communication tools for attract everyone with its unique features of update information. The social media users can share their ideas, feelings, images, documents, videos, with others through social media tools like as Whatts up , facebook, twitter and etc. This paper conveys library services though the social media.

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Published
2025-01-31
How to Cite
C, Kasimani.; K, Kasilingam.. The Impact of Social Media in the Library Service. International Journal of Information Studies, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 3, p. 80-86, jan. 2025. ISSN 2278-6511. Available at: <https://dline.info/ojs/index.php/ijis/article/view/474>. Date accessed: 05 apr. 2026.