International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Modern Education (IJMRME) ISSN (Online): 2454 - 6119 (www.rdmodernresearch.org) Volume I, Issue II, 2015 237 SOCIAL NETWORKING: A GOOD PLATFORM FOR LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS Yogesh P. Surwade*, Sujit W. Jagtap** & Manmeet Kour*** * Jr. Library Assistant, Knowledge Resource Centre, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra ** Jr. Library Assistant, Knowledge Resource Centre, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra *** Library Fellow, National Forest Library & Information Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand Abstract: ‘Social Networking’ refers to a range of web-enabled, it enabled software programs that allow users to interact and work collaboratively with other users. It includes ability to browse, search, invite friends to connect and interact, share film reviews, comments, blog entries, favorites, discussions, events, videos, ratings, music, classified ads, tag and classified information and more. A social network allows individual to join and create a personal profile, then formality connect with other users of the system as social friend. This paper is mainly discusses about the social network, social networking, definition of social networking, its various important features, benefits and how social networking helps in libraries and librarians for doing various activities like information exchange, resource sharing, etc. These days everybody is using these various social networking. It can help to provide everyone up-to-date information at one platform related to their fields. As we know that libraries and librarians are the biggest information exchanging platforms then social networking is too much beneficial for the users and librarians. Keywords: Web 2.0, Social networks, Social media, LIS Professionals & Social Networks. Social Network: Social network is a broad term used to denote the blogs, user created videos and wikis. A social networking is an online service, platform or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social network or social relations among people who share interests and activities. Social networking often involves grouping specific individuals or organizations together. Social network provides a quick, low tech method to generate, maintain web based subject guides and act as communication tools to enable social interaction among LIS Professionals. Most Social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet. They interact, share and exchange resources by social networks. It promotes free flow of information and sharing of resources beyond boundaries. Introduction: Social Networking allows an individual to create a profile for themselves on the service and share that profile with other users with similar interests to create a social network. Users can choose to have public profiles which can be viewed by anyone or private profiles which can only be viewed by people that the users allow. Users can usually post photographs, music and videos on their site. A Social Network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. Social networks are built upon a hypothesis that there exists a determinable networking structure of how people know each other. Social networking could enable librarians and patrons not only to interact, but to share and change resources dynamically in an