The Place of Social Media as a Viable Tool for Resource Sharing in Libraries

Abstract

This paper looked at how libraries can shred resources among themselves through various social media that allows them to create, collaborate, connect, store, retrieve and share contents in a way that will enhance maximum attainment of library service goals. It also highlights various forms of resource sharing and types of social media that can be applied to resource sharing; it emphasizes the importance and challenges of social media as a veritable tool for resource sharing in library. It concludes that supports library in the aspect of resource sharing, most importantly, as most libraries are facing financial problems, which are causing drastic decline in purchasing power of libraries. Finally, some recommendations were suggested on how to improve resource sharing through collaboration.