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Librarians in virtual community : forum of the Croatian Library Association

Ivan Kraljević orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-4879-7245


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Abstract

The Forum of the Croatian Library Association (CLA) was placed on the web site of the Association in December 2005. According to its statistics, the Forum currently has 92 users, 49 topics and 210 posts. The statistics testifies an extremely low number of visitors and usage of this Forum.
The paper deals with forum as a media, stressing its advantages and the need for a professional forum community, while offering possible reasons for the low number of CLA Forum users. It also proposes ways to increase the number of participants in order to achieve a high-quality professional virtual community that would continuously upgrade the forum and provide professional assistance and support to colleague librarians, as well as offer casual social interaction.

Keywords

Internet forum; Forum of the Croatian Library Association; virtual communities; virtual communication

Hrčak ID:

80577

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/80577

Publication date:

8.3.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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