Social media and library marketing

Purpose The basic purpose of this paper is to find out library professionals how these libraries perceive the importance of social media and emerging technologies what would make the difference in the libraries and how they help libraries to create environments flexible and exclusive. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews various options for libraries to use different forms of social media to market their resources and services. Findings The reviewed literature has identified the importance and use of emerging technologies and social media in libraries. This paper can help library professionals to engage themselves to use social media and emerging technologies to bring innovation into the library sources and services. Originality/value This paper provides a review of social media and emerging technologies used for marketing in the libraries environment.