التواجد الإلكتروني للمكتبات العامة السعودية على مواقع الشبكات الاجتماعية : دراسة مسحية للمكتبات العامة السعودية على موقع فيسبوك

Abstract EN

The study examines the reality of the electronic presence of the Saudi public libraries on Facebook and its existing usage practices.

The methodology used in the study is determined in the survey methodology and the content analysis methodology which was applied to reveal the current usage practices by the Saudi public libraries for their pages on the site.

The study was based on the Check List checklist to collect the necessary information.

The study revealed a number of results, including the weakness of the Saudi public libraries to benefit from the possibilities of social networking sites and the decline of their electronic presence in the environment of existing social networking platforms.

The limited presence of electronic libraries of Saudi Arabia on the Facebook platform, where seven public libraries of the total community of the original study from the Saudi libraries (14/7) and by (%50) had an electronic presence on the site.

Lack of continuous updating of the pages of the Saudi public libraries in the vast majority of public libraries (7/6) by (%85).

All %100of the public libraries in Saudi Arabia are involved in the use of About, Images and Publications in their respective web pages.

Non¬employment of Saudi public libraries to their pages on Facebook for the purpose of providing information services to beneficiaries, and limit the recruitment of pages for information and marketing purposes only.

The goal of advertising, promotion and marketing is the main umbrella under which the content and content of the publications are available.