Results from survey of library relations with themega-internet sites

Primary Research Group has published Libraries & the Mega-Internet Sites ( A Survey of how Libraries Use and Relate to Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, eBAY, Amazon, Facebook, YouTUBE & Other Mega-Internet Sites), ISBN 1-57440-096-7. This report presents data from more than 120 academic, special and public libraries about how they use and relate to the mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, and others. In many ways the mega-sites have transformed library management, fostering change in information literacy education, library marketing and public relations, cataloging, digitization, collection management and other aspects of librarianship. The report provides hard data on exactly how libraries are dealing with the emerging internet giants, how they are adopting, negotiating, repelling, and embracing them. Just a few of the reports conclusions are reproduced below: * More than 32% of the librarians responding to the survey considered Wikip (Source: gmane.education.web4lib)

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