Crowdsourcing and Library Performance in Digital Age
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Digital libraries have been substituting the printed resources into electronic resources with the advent of technology in order to share the information online with the user community and also make the information accessible 24/7. Crowdsourcing is a process of gathering the information and knowledge among crowd of people, via the Web and it can be paid or unpaid. Crowdsourcing is one of endeavour to gain contributions from online community in obtaining views, ideas and contents is crowdsourcing. The purpose of this paper is to identify type of crowdsourcing that can be implementing in order to improve library performance in digital age. In this conceptual paper, an attempt has been made to discuss the concept of crowdsourcing, typology of crowdsourcing and also how those can be related with library performance in digital age. This study would be beneficial to the libraries as well as researchers as this study would provide the necessary information on the crowdsourcing and its contribution towards library performance.
Authors and Affiliations
Nur Aizatul Zakaria, Che Zainab Hj Abdullah
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- EP ID EP558751
- DOI 10.6007/IJARPED/v7-i3/4353
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