Use of Social Media and Librarians' Interaction with Users in University of Calabar Llibrary

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between use of social media and librarian's interaction with users' in University of Calabar library,  Cross River States of Nigeria. Survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 300(three hundred)  registered library users' and this was also used as sample. Accidental sampling technique was used for the study. The data collected were  analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysis showed that use of  facebook, use of WhatsApp and use of flicker are significantly related with librarians' interaction with users' in promoting library services  in University of Calabar Library. It was recommended that finance should be adequately and promptly provided by the parent institutions  to further enhance the use of social media to promote library services in University libraries.