Application of Blogging Technology for Effective Library Service Delivery in University Libraries

Abstract

Blogs emerged in the late 1990s. It then grown to take care of specific areas of study and research. This study present: history of blog, background and some free software that the library can lay its hands on and the area of application to library services such as reference services, current awareness services and selective dissemination of information. This practice quickly becoming a new way to communicate ideas, opinions, resources and news. The study then recommend that librarians need to familiarizes themselves with blogs. This is because Library and information professionals will feel the benefits of blogs in the area of current awareness services, publication records, annual progress report of the library, sending messages to the new students, and many other messages, purposes, and audiences and then attracting new users to the library