2025/11/07 by Agboke, Abimbola, Undie, Felicia Nkatv
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #Digital Marketing and Social Media #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Social Media in Health Education #Web and Library Services
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.05051
openalex publication_date 2025/11/07 · openalex created_date 2025/11/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper focused on the utilization of social media by library professionals and library users. It provides an understanding of social media, the most popular social media platforms utilized in the libraries. It also mentions the reasons for the adoption of social media in libraries be it academic, public, school libraries and other types of libraries. This is a review paper on the use of social media among library professionals and patrons. The findings reveal the contributions of social media to the libraries. Social media makes things easy for library professionals and library users. It enables them to connect, create awareness to new information, disseminate information instantly, and helps to market the library resources and services. Therefore, it is recommended amongst others that the library management board should encourage the use of social media in libraries.