1. Effective Use of Social Media in Libraries
A Case Study from Regional Centre for Strategic Studies
(RCSS) Library
Kamani Perera
Librarian
Regional Centre for Strategic Studies
k_vithana@yahoo.com

2. Introduction

3. Blog
• Very interactive tool
• Receives instant feedback
• Dynamic, distributed and more collaborative
• Overcome financial crisis
• Can share unlimited information
• Anybody can read and write their comments
• Kind of online diary

4. Blog on Strategic Studies
http://kamani-strategicstudies.blogspot.com

5. Blog Page views by Countries
• United States 21440
• Russia 7107
• United Kingdom 5265
• India 3892
• Germany 3798
• Sri Lanka 3121
• France 2348
• Ukraine 2221
• Netherlands 1877
• Spain 1829
• Page views all time history 81,263
*2011 May – 2013 June (As at 21 June 2013)

6. Knowledge Portal
Knowledge portal can be defined as a web page
that provides an entry point to the Internet or
Intranet. It supports working, learning, teaching,
research, and development.

7. RCSS Digital Reference Library Portal on
South Asian Strategic Studies and
International Relations (http://rcss.asia/)

8. RCSS Digital Reference Library Portal
Contd.

9. RCSS Digital Reference Library
Portal Contd.

10. Conclusion
• Portals and blogs are web 2.0 applications and
provide more interactive, effective platform
for its users. Therefore, it is called wisdom
web, participative web, and read/write web.
• I encourage you to use these tools in your
libraries to capture, store, share and
disseminate internal and external knowledge
within your virtual community.
Thank You