The Academic Library Meets Web 2.0: Applications and Implications
The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipPublished 19 June 2009
Xu Chen, Fenfei Ouyang, Heting Chu
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Visits to 81 academic library websites in the New York State reveal that 42% of them adopted one or more Web 2.0 tools such as blogs while implementation of those tools in individual libraries varies greatly.
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Visits to 81 academic library websites in the New York State reveal that 42% of them adopted one or more Web 2.0 tools such as blogs while implementation of those tools in individual libraries varies greatly. We also propose a conceptual model of Academic Library 2.0 in this report.
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