Research On Application Of Social Networks In The University Library Information Services

The information technology and the Internet platform has combined the Internet and other traditional industries into a new development situation. In this case, as a sort of traditional industry, the library should advance with the times, change traditional service ideas by pioneering and innovating. Under the new situation, the original literature center is facing a depressing future and the dependence on the library is reducing too. Now, for most people,they prefer to search on the internet rather than go to the library to look up any information that they need. As a new platform for people to share experiences and communicate with each other, social media plays an important part in our daily life. University libraries take advantage of features that resources can be shared and information can be sent quickly through social media. They offer library services through social media, which promotes libraries to use their own resources and knowledge base to a certain degree.Based on such background, the author made a survey and deep analysis on the fundamental state of social media in academic libraries at home and abroad.This paper focuses on different social platform services in university libraries at home and abroad. Taking the libraries in Anhui University, University of Science and Technology of China and Anhui Agricultural University as examples. By combining the users’experiences with the results of the survey,this paper analyzes the present conditions of social media services in academic libraries. According to the research results, this paper points out the problems existing in the application of social media in the university library, and offers some personal suggestions and solutions to these problems. The last part is the conclusion, retrospection and prospection of this dissertation.