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Application of Web 2.0 Tools in IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) & IIM (Indian Institute of Management) Libraries of India: A Study


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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.

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Web 2.0, Blogs, Wiki, RSS, Instant Messaging, Social Networking.
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Rupak Chakravarty
Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014
India

Kiran Chopra
Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014
India


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Authors

Rupak Chakravarty
Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
Kiran Chopra
Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India

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.

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