User-generated content and its impact on web-based library services : questioning authority /

Examines the impact of user-generated content on web-based library services. It begins with an overview of Web 2.0 tools and technologies, and a brief look at the emerging semantic tools of Web 3.0 and their implications for libraries. The book investigates the changing role of the end user as both...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cahill, Kay
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Witney : Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, 2009.
Series:	Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:	User-generated content. Libraries and the Internet. Social media. Social Media Contenu créé par l'utilisateur. Bibliothèques et Internet. Médias sociaux. social media. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General. Libraries and the Internet Social media User-generated content Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The information environment
A dialogue, not a lecture: libraries as online communities
A changing world
Drinking from the firehose
Controlling the firehose
Conclusion.