Internet 2.0 tools and Brazilian university libraries: usage survey and its implications

• Autor(a) principal: Jorge, Pablo Diego Silva de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Marcos Maurilio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: AtoZ (Curitiba)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/atoz/article/view/41317
• topic: Library Science: Management Systems, Information Science: Information Technology; Web 2.0; Libraries and the Internet; Library services; Social technologies; Information technology and communication; Biblioteconomia: Gestão de Sistemas; Ciência da Informação: Tecnologia da Informação; Web 2.0; Bibliotecas e a Internet; Serviços de bibliotecas; Tecnologias sociais; Tecnologias da informação e comunicação; Bibliotecología: Sistemas de Gestión, Ciencias de la Información: Tecnologías de la Información; Web 2.0; Bibliotecas e Internet; Servicios de biblioteca; Las tecnologías sociales; Tecnología de la información y comunicación

Introduction: It introduces the concept of Library 2.0, and how services and products oriented in this perspective would transform traditional libraries into more interactive and dynamic environments. It shows how the tools 2.0 - blogs, microblogging, social networks, wikis, portals of sharing pictures and videos, among others - can provide an improvement of communication processes, information transmission and knowledge acquisition, bringing together the Library, the librarians and users. Method: A qualitative and quantitative analysis was performed at web sites of Brazilian public university libraries (including the Federal District) aiming to seek 2.0 tools usage. Results: It was found that nineteen libraries - of a sample of twenty seven - use at least one 2.0 tool. Three groups of 2.0 tools were found as being preferential (Sources RSS, Microblogs and Social Networks). Reading Social Network, wikis and instant messaging tools weren´t found in any of the sites analyzed. Conclusions: Brazilian public university libraries still have a modest participation on the 2.0 sphere, which reduces the potential of communication, interaction and collaboration between users and librarians.