Social Networks

"Social Networks such as MySpace, FaceBook, Del.icio.us, Frappr and Flickr (example North Carolina State University with information on their photograph collections)are networks that have massive popularity in Web 2.0. While MySpace and FaceBook could make users to share themselves with one another (detailed profiles of users lives and personalities). Del.icio.us enables users to share Web resources and Flickr enables the sharing of pictures. Frappr is a bit of blended network, using maps, chat room and pictures to connect individuals"(Manness, J.M., 2006). LibraryThing enables users to catalog their books and view what other users share those books, as how librarians recommend reading to users or to one another by viewing one another collections. It also enables them to communicate asynchronously, blog and tag their books.

Social networking could interact between users and librarians, also share and change resources dynamically in an electronic medium. "Users can create accounts with the library networks, see what other users have in common to their information needs, recommend resources to one another and the network recommends resources to users, based on similar profiles, demographics, previously-accessed sources and a host of data that users provide, could make users choose what is public and what is not. This could give a big impact to the library because the library could know what the information that really needs by the users and what type of information that commonly use by the users. This could also boost up the services that provided by the libraries.