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Studera Press Digital Librarianship And Social Media by Dhanavandan S
Presently libraries are deeply engaged to modernize their operations and activities to provide fast, integrated, Interactive and comprehensive services to their stake holders. As a result, libraries are facing new challenges; new competitors, new demands, new expectations and a variety of information services. The new technologies have facilitated the social media and digital libraries. The Social media are used to e-books, online journals, online full-text databases, bibliographical databases, open access databases, etc. have gained respectable place in the higher education system. Today, the Social media have become a valuable, perhaps indispensable, not because of the added convenience of rapid information retrieval and sharing but also provide a means of making resources available at 24×7. It cannot be compared with printed materials. The growth of the Social Media and Digital libraries offer an opportunity to find information and data from all over the world.In these circumstances the authors were collected nearly 30 papers from Library and Information Science Professionals in the National level under following four themes.Theme 1: Innovative Technology and Digital LibrarianshipTheme 2: Harnessing of Digital LibrariesTheme 3: Application of Social Media in LibrariesTheme 4: LIS Research and User Perception